[whatwg] Features for responsive Web design

Andy Davies dajdavies at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 03:37:02 PDT 2012


On 9 August 2012 17:01, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Andy Davies <dajdavies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would also like to see if there's a way of using srcset to hint to the UA
>> that it can skip the image under low throughput conditions e.g. GPRS.
>> Same would apply to image-set in CSS
>
> The image-set() function already includes this functionality.  You can
> include a fallback color, and if the UA decides it doesn't want to
> download *any* of the images, it can just create a solid-color image
> and use that instead.
>

Thanks I see it now - must have missed it when first scanned the
CSS4-images spec

Andy



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