Re: Meet-up with browser representatives and the W3C

Alrighty then, count me in!

Le 28/07/2013 16:58, Marcos Caceres a écrit :
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> On Friday, July 26, 2013, Matthieu Larcher wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     Is this event restricted to the main actors and contributors or
>     are simple web developers welcome to discuss the matter too ?
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>  Everyone is welcome, though space is limited. If you would like to 
> attend just let know soon.
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>     ML
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>     Le 26/07/2013 19:44, matmarquis.com <http://matmarquis.com> a écrit :
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>         All,
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>         We’re organizing a meet-up with Mozilla, the W3C, and as many
>         browser representatives as we can gather so that we can
>         discuss a way forward for responsive images. We’re hoping that
>         meeting can take place on the 10th of September in Paris at
>         the Mozilla offices (just before the CSS WG meeting, which
>         starts on the 11th). So far we have confirmations from Apple,
>         Adobe, Google, and Opera.
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>         The purpose of the meet-up is to discuss the current proposals
>         ([1],[2],[3]), assess the obstacles to their implementations,
>         and build some momentum. A little more detail:
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>         For the last couple of years, various folks—present company in
>         particular—have been working towards finding a way to bring
>         responsive images to the web. Although we now have three
>         proposals on the table (srcset [1], <picture> [2] and client
>         hints [3]), we've had trouble getting sufficient momentum
>         behind browser implementations that would let the market
>         decide which solutions fulfills the use cases most effectively.
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>         In the meantime, web developers have had to make do with
>         custom pollyfills which often prevent browsers from loading
>         the image resources until after the DOM was (at least
>         partially) loaded and Javascript on the page has run. This
>         directly hinders the performance work browser engineers have
>         done over the years to optimize resource loading, and get
>         requests on the wire as soon as possible, according to their
>         priority. This leaves developers either giving up all the
>         benefits of preloading or downloading unnecessary data,
>         slowing down the overall load time and inflating bandwidth costs.
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>         Proposed agenda:
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>         1. Introduction to each of the proposed solutions
>         2. Implementor feedback on the solutions
>         3. Overlap among solutions
>         4. Next steps
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>         Space is fairly limited, so let me know whether you’ll be able
>         to attend as soon as you can. Thanks!
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>         -M
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>         [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/srcset/w3c-srcset/
>         [2] http://picture.responsiveimages.org/
>         [3] https://github.com/igrigorik/http-client-hints
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