Hi, I don't want to spoil it, but if you use an img with src and srcset, the image (src) will be prefetched by most browsers, resulting in 2 downloads, we faced this problem implementing a simple image formatter for Drupal. We decided to switch back to using the picture tag with just 1 source tag. Regardless of the above, you are right, if img + srcset can be used, use it On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:24 AM, John Albin Wilkins <john@albin.net> wrote: > Thanks for making the distinction clearer, Jason! > > Your post has kicked off a good discussion in the Drupal issue queue. We > currently have the old-style, picture element-only implementation in our > Drupal 8 alpha release software and need to make sure we get the 75% > use-case of srcset+sizes implemented now before the official 8.0 release. > https://www.drupal.org/node/2334387 > > - John > > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Christopher Schmitt < > schmitt@christopher.org> wrote: > >> Thanks for writing this, Jason! >> >> C. >> >> On Sep 22, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Jason Grigsby <jason@cloudfour.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Odin Hørthe Omdal <odinho@opera.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I've very seldomly seen any article mentioning responsive images saying >>> that "you almost always want srcset+sizes, sometimes if you really want >>> you can *add* media". >> >> >> Done. >> http://blog.cloudfour.com/dont-use-picture-most-of-the-time/ >> >> Was working on that article when I raised the issue on this list. Wanted >> to check to see if I was the only one with this concern before I finished >> it. >> >> >> > > > -- > John Albin Wilkins > john@albin.net > @JohnAlbin, etc. >
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