Re: [whatwg] Implementation complexity with elements vs an attribute (responsive images) from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-05-12 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from May 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 11:07:19 -0400
To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <4FAE7CA7.2020701@mit.edu>

On 5/12/12 9:28 AM, Mathew Marquis wrote:
> While that information may be available at the time the img tag is parsed, I don’t believe it will be available at the time of prefetching

Which information?

At least in Gecko, prefetching happens "when the tag is parsed".

So in fact in Gecko the srcset approach would be much more amenable to 
prefetching than the <picture> approach.

-Boris

Received on Saturday, 12 May 2012 15:07:50 UTC