[whatwg] add html-attribute for "responsive images"

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Tue Aug 30 08:23:32 PDT 2011


On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:18:38 +0200, Karl Dubost <karld at opera.com> wrote:
> Le 30 août 2011 à 10:51, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:31:59 +0200, Karl Dubost <karld at opera.com> wrote:
>>> * It is in fact an issue for being able to make the website responsive  
>>> on Mobile devices in low banwidth.
>>
>> The mobile devices are the ones with the high-resolution displays.
>
> And as I explained elsewhere it is not a question of high/low-resolution  
> only, but about interaction contexts. Different images for different  
> surface sizes.
>
> Desktop: Show a full photo of Anne van Kesteren riding on a plane  
> 1024*250 px
> Tablet: Show the photo a closer shot of the plane (cowboy frame)   
> 400*150 px
> Mobile: Show a portrait of Anne with his leather pilot helmet 100x100 px

That seems like different content. We do not really have a good solution  
for client-side content adaptation.


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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/



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