Re: Creating Responsive Images (New Group)

Awesome stuff.

My originally thoughts were on creating a new image format. Something of a
Query-able Network Graphic. This is all "blue sky" of course but what I was
thinking was the image would have a 1K header with a collection of meta
tag's  with references to offset's in the image data and the web browser
would jump to that offset. If no matching tag was found then the entire
image would be displayed.

This would not just be beneficial for responsive but for a whole host of
applications one in my domain of expertise would be for GIS; Web Map tiles
and image overlays would benefit huge from this kind of approach.

I am glad there are people out there thinking / working on these kinds of
things. I've always believed in a purist approach to responsive design
keeping the styling logic in the css and the mark-up separate. With an
image format based solution for responsive design that remains a reality.

I would be more then willing to contribute my personal time to any efforts
along this approach.

Cheers

Paul



On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Yoav Weiss <yoav@yoav.ws> wrote:

> Yeah, both JPEG-XR and WebP support an alpha channel. I haven't used that
> capability as part of my experiments, but I imagine that it can fit well,
> maybe with some adjustments to the diff function. Otherwise, in terms of
> quality, both JPEG-XR and WebP have a decent alpha channel and usually
> compress photographic images with an alpha channel way better than PNG.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Paul Deschamps <pdescham49@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> My Apologies,
>>
>> I see that JPEG-XR supports an alpha channel. Have you done any testing
>> with your approach including the alpha channel? I am mainly curious if the
>> quality is comparable to PNG.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Yoav Weiss <yoav@yoav.ws> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Paul Deschamps <pdescham49@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Very interesting Yoav, Nicely done! I am laughing over here with a work
>>>> colleague as you've written down a very similar approach to what we've
>>>> discussed here at length.
>>>>
>>>> I am unfamiliar with JPG-XR how well does it handle alpha blending? and
>>>> how would that apply to your approach?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you elaborate?
>>>
>>>
>>
>