Re: [css3-images] Indicating it's optional to retrieve a url specified in background-image (or font-face)

On 9 July 2012 22:55, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In Images 4 I will define the image-set() function, which lets the
> browser do bandwidth discrimination in a manner basically identical to
> <img srcset>.  This was proposed by Apple a few months ago and
> currently has an experimental implementation in WebKit (I don't think
> it's web-exposed yet).
>
> It seems that this could be addressed by creating a solid-color image
> (with "image(black)" or the like) and giving it a small descriptor,
> like .1x or even 0x.
>
> Alternately, we could allow <color> and give it this behavior, where
> it's used as a fallback if the browser decides it doesn't want to
> download any of the images.
>

Cool, seems a reasonable approach, any thoughts for font-face?

Andy

Received on Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:22:44 UTC