[whatwg] Resolutions meta tag proposal

• From: Aral Balkan <aral@aralbalkan.com>
• Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:39:31 +0100
• Message-ID: <AANLkTinvknm7dSA_Er_xC1MOZFE6dA5M1X01wEgtpa7T@mail.gmail.com>

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.)

I look forward to hearing your thoughts :)

All the best,
Aral

Received on Friday, 2 July 2010 05:39:31 UTC