- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:56:13 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Aral Balkan wrote: > > I just submitted a proposal for a new meta tag to flag that > high-resolution images are available and should be loaded in place of > low-resolution ones for users with high-PPI displays (like the new > iPhone 4's Retina display). > > Please see: > > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions#Proposals > > (Currently, although you can use the min-device-pixel-ratio CSS Media > Query to achieve this for background images, no such mechanism exists > for images displayed via the <img> tag short of setting a flag in CSS > and using image substitution via JavaScript. This new meta tag proposes > a JavaScript-free and easy-to-author mechanism to handle the above use > case.) Personally I think it's easier just to always send the high-res version, but if that isn't satisfactory I recommend following the process described in the wiki to get browsers to implement your proposal, as Anne said: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F There were a lot of other suggestions listed in this thread; they are all candidates for going through this process. At this point, though, I don't think the solutions to this problem are mature enough to warrant standardisation. We need implementation experience first. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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