[whatwg] The src-N proposal

[Adam Barth]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Rafael Rinaldi wrote:
>> It looks complex because it tries to solve something complex. I think
>> there’s no way to avoid verbosity to solve such thing.
>
> The way you avoid complexity in such things is that you don't solve the
> overall problem, you solve small segments of the problem (e.g. in script
> or CSS), then pick the solution you want.
>
> So for example, we could have a script to handle image grids, another to
> handle simple cases where as the window gets wider you display more
> context in the image, etc. If all these scripts have some common features
> they all need (e.g. the ability to work with pre-parsing to say which
> image they need first, so it can be fetched early) then we can provide
> that common core.
>
> This is similar to AppCache vs Alex's ServiceWorkers. AppCache addresses a
> small set of use cases, probably not enough. ServiceWorkers provides the
> tools to address a lot of use cases, but isn't directly itself a solution;
> you use it to build solutions. Another example would be the WebForms2
> repetition model, vs Rafael's <template>. The repetition model idea solved
> some specific use cases, but trying to make it solve all use cases would
> be a hugely complicated endeavour and would be really ugly. <template>
> provides a tool with which you can build specific solutions, but isn't
> itself a direct solution.

I basically agree with Ian.  Let's address the simple use cases first
(i.e., device-pixel-ratio switching) and worry about the more complex
use cases in the future.

Adam