[whatwg] An alternative to <picture> and srcset, is this realistic?

Tue May 15 02:28:58 PDT 2012

We're getting some good feedback over on the Community Group about
this, people seem to like it.

I'm still asking a few people to try and find holes in the proposal
though, reasons why it wouldn't work.

-Matt

On 14 May 2012 17:59, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Wilcox <mail at matthewwilcox.com> wrote:
>> All good points, thanks. Sorry I'd missed you saying <style> rather
>> than <link/>, my bad!
>>
>> I had assumed that we would be able to take the logic for resolving
>> media query applicability directly from that in CSS, which is why I
>> have not given it any further thought. It seemed like a solved issue.
>
> Heh, it *is* solved by CSS, it's just that the solution is "somewhere
> between none and all of them apply", which works for CSS but not for
> yours. ^_^
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
>> On 5/14/12 11:55 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>> That's why I mentioned an inline<style>  at the top of the<body>  -
>>> I'm not sure if browsers skip past that when building the tree or not,
>>
>>
>> They certainly skip past such things when prefetching.
>>
>> Putting information that needs to affect prefetching in elements where the
>> HTML tokenizer can extract it is vastly better than putting it into elements
>> where it can't (like <style>).
>
> That's what I was afraid of.  All right, then, ignore that part of the
> suggestion.  This should live in HTML if it lives anywhere.
>
> ~TJ