RE: What are the chances of syntax changes?

Hi Jason,

Just to add a note about Real Estate Websites. You say about a Website with 800,000 images...
Imagine Real Estate Websites with 100,000 (or more!) Listings. Each Listing with 15 images. Each image with its correspondent thumbnail. The total: 3 million image files. There are thousands of Real Estate Websites around the world living with a total of image files even greater.
For now, we are recommending our Real Estate clients to use services like "sencha.com" or "wurfl.io" with a browser detection script.
"Plan for the fact that whatever you implement will be deprecated"...  We are not reconsidering it! :)

A note, Flexmls says "Hot-link our photos whenever able":
https://www.flexmls.com/developers/rets/tutorials/best-practices-photo-downloads/

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Eduardo Marques



From: Jason Grigsby [mailto:jason@cloudfour.com] 
Sent: quinta-feira, 11 de setembro de 2014 19:14
To: public-respimg@w3.org
Subject: What are the chances of syntax changes?

Last year I wrote an article with eight guidelines and one rule for responsive images:
http://blog.cloudfour.com/8-guidelines-and-1-rule-for-responsive-images/
The one rule was "Plan for the fact that whatever you implement will be deprecated".
I've incorporated these guidelines and the rule into presentations. Now that picture is arriving in browsers, I'm reconsidering these guidelines and the rule.
In particular, I'm trying to get a sense of how likely it is that the syntax for picture might change. 
I still believe there are tremendous benefit to centralizing the handling of images and image markup. But it no longer seems a certainty that things will change. If anything, it seems more likely that picture will continue as spec'd.
I'd love to hear from someone with more perspective on the lifecycle of standards about how confident we should feel that picture will stay as currently spec'd. Is it common that features like this get tweaked a little in the future as people start using them and an oversight is found? Should we still be hedging our bets a little? Or does it seem extremely unlikely to change at this point?
Thank you,
Jason
P.S. I'm not trying to spread FUD about picture. I'm pushing for people to implement picture. It's a question about to what risk a company might have putting the picture element on hundreds of html pages and then finding that it needed to be updated because the spec changed slightly or something like that.

Received on Friday, 12 September 2014 15:48:00 UTC