Re: srcN - Alternative to picture and srcset

On Oct 7, at 10:26 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote:

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>> Not saying this is the way to go, but I don't like the srcN part of the proposal either. It's not really script friendly either because you can't read or update them all at the same time.  
> It would be a bit of a nightmare to try to update the single attribute version without having a specific API to split everything into its component parts (if one tries to update this "by hand", doing anything wrong would invalidate the whole attribute - as the spec provides no error recovery). At least the multiple attribute version is a bit easier to work with, though it's fairly hard to reason about.  

Yeah—for what it’s worth, we picked an couple of fights over `srcset` and APIs already, and the result was being told that manipulating a single giant string was API enough. I agree that looping through attributes isn’t ideal (and looping through `source` elements seems a lot more natural), but it sure beats inscrutable string manipulation.

> Regardless, there doesn't appear to be a lot of use cases for updating the attribute dynamically or for getting any kind of event (apart from what you already get with <img>). Those could be added down the line as needed… right now, src-n seems like a suitable evolutionary step that meets the "80% use cases" criteria.  
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Received on Monday, 7 October 2013 14:35:07 UTC