Re: Picture Element Explanation. from Michael McGinnis on 2015-03-05 (public-respimg@w3.org from March 2015)

From: Michael McGinnis <mikemcg@biographiks.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 07:10:55 -0600
To: public-respimg@w3.org
Message-ID: <CADtpE=9ggTMoowiR0xcrVmggUn2JSHZLMSwHCP8rhrowVf_Dmw@mail.gmail.com>

Paul,

I tend to be a purist too, as far as separating content and
presentation. For a CSS based solution (but which doesn't solve all
the problems that Yoav raised), take a look at image-set
<http://cloudfour.com/examples/image-set/>. Still, one could argue
that a truly purist approach would be to not use the img element
either, to use CSS background images exclusively, if images are simply
presentational.

For me as a developer, one big advantage of srcset/sizes over a CSS
based solution (I haven't needed to use picture yet) is that the
images are right there in my HTML. I don't have to edit two files to
change an image. I don't have to keep inspecting elements to see what
line of CSS is generating this image.  Background images on empty divs
feels like a hack now.

Received on Thursday, 5 March 2015 22:00:33 UTC