[whatwg] RWD Heaven: if browsers reported device capabilities in a request header

[Matthew Wilcox]

Can I suggest you read
http://24ways.org/2011/adaptive-images-for-responsive-designs-again then
please?

It does not work "fine" at all.

Cheers,
-Matt

On 6 February 2012 20:23, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote:

> Scripting on the client side works just fine. It's pure markup situations
> where you run into problems.
>
> I'm well aware that Image nodes are alive. I'm keeping an eye out on the
> DOMParser method to see if they're alive when it parses as text/html.
>
> I recently wrapped some noscript tags around HTML image nodes to prevent
> them from blocking my onload. Works fine.
>
>
> -Charles
>
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Matthew Wilcox <mail at matthewwilcox.com>
> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Scripting on the client side for the purposes of content negotiation
> *does
> >> not work*
> >>
> > Please, understand this. Because browsers pre-fetch as soon as a node is
> >> created there can be no client-side solution to this issue with the
> current
> >> HTML/JS specifications and browser behaviour. The image linked in the
> HTML
> >> is *always* requested, and it is requested before the client can do a
> >> damned thing about it.
> >>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On 6 Feb 2012, at 20:03, Charles Pritchard wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 2/6/12 2:26 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:59:14 -0000, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>> That really depends on what the application is doing. Depending on
> >>>>>> input capabilities, you may want to have multiple pages instead of a
> >>>>>> single page for some sort of configuration setup, for example.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Whether to use monolithic forms or paginated wizards is a
> presentation
> >>>>> thing
> >>>>
> >>>> Not on the HTML level.  Not if you want to allow useful non-scripted
> >> semantic submission of partially-filled-in info in the paginated case.
> >>>>
> >>>>> that need not even have anything to do with HTTP. You can fetch
> >>>>> half the monolithic form and fetch the rest when the user has filled
> in
> >>>>> most of former half.
> >>>>
> >>>> Not without script.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I really didn't like the consequences of server-side scripting to
> manage
> >> dependencies. It was always more work than simply doing the scripting in
> >> the client side. It was more prone to error. It let our coders get away
> >> with less rugged design.
> >>>
> >>> I'm in the responsive and universal design camp. I'm in the
> >> accessibility camp. At present, it does require scripting. I'm building
> web
> >> apps, so, scripting comes with that territory.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It seems to me like these folk are looking for <iframe defer> and
> <style
> >> defer> and some sort of media selector for the network information API,
> to
> >> minimize bandwidth on metered connections without needing to use
> scripting
> >> to do that work.
> >>>
> >>> I'm interested in seeing a solution here. I do not think server-side
> >> management is the right one.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -Charles
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>