- From: Anthony Ricaud <anthony@ricaud.me>
- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:24:48 +0100
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Le 12 déc. 2010 à 00:28, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit : > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Anthony Ricaud <anthony@ricaud.me> wrote: >> And when a new format will come out, every UA will download this new format since it knows nothing about it. > > That's no worse than today's world, where every UA downloads *every* resource. In today's world, there is no image fallback feature so why this comparison ? >> Plus, it ties the URL to the file format which is not a good idea. > > Theoretically, sure, but in practice the file extension is a very > strong indicator. Strong indicator but a lot of images are served through scripting and the extension is irrelevant for those. > >> Wouldn't it make more sense to use the same logic as @font-face : format() ? Only known formats are downloaded. > > Possibly. That's a bit clumsier in the functional notation, but it > might work in a different syntax. I agree that including multiple parenthesis might not be the best syntax, but at least the logic is better.
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