- From: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 00:23:19 +0100
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Odin wrote: > It's heavily optimized for the usecase that will happen most often: for > "retina" type displays: > > <img src="odin-in-suit.jpg" srcset="odin-in-suit@2.jpg 2x"> Okay. This is also what Ted said about the srcset proposal and it makes a lot of sense for that use case. But it seems far less suited to the use-case of "art-directed" image decisions i.e. allowing the author to specify which image should be displayed (based on some criteria, possibly the viewport size). Jason does a good job of differentiating both use-cases here: http://blog.cloudfour.com/a-framework-for-discussing-responsive-images-solutions/ > 1. How do we enable authors so that they can display different images under different conditions based on art direction? > 2. Enabling authors to provide different resolutions of images based on a variety of conditions. The srcset proposal that has been thrown into the spec looks like a good answer for that second use-case but it doesn't attempt to tackle the first use-case. Now ideally we'd find one solution that solves both use-cases but after the discussion here and in IRC I think that's looking increasingly unlikely. So if we can agree that srcset is a good solution for handling "retina" displays and other "secret sauce" conditions (like bandwidth, as Tab blogged about), can we move on to trying to find a different solution for the other use case? I *suspect* that the solution for the art-direction use-case could look almost exactly like media queries (because the use-case is so similar to common use-cases for media queries). Jeremy -- Jeremy Keith a d a c t i o http://adactio.com/
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