[whatwg] Resolutions meta tag proposal

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Aral Balkan wrote:
>
> 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.)

Personally I think it's easier just to always send the high-res version, 
but if that isn't satisfactory I recommend following the process described 
in the wiki to get browsers to implement your proposal, as Anne said:

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F

There were a lot of other suggestions listed in this thread; they are all 
candidates for going through this process. At this point, though, I don't 
think the solutions to this problem are mature enough to warrant 
standardisation. We need implementation experience first.

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