[whatwg] <imgset> responsive imgs proposition (Re: The src-N proposal)

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
> I see. It seems like it would be simpler to just define content on a real element to have the existing WK/Blink behavior without saying "replaced". It is not obvious why ignoring the element size is a useful default behavior. But I suppose that discussion is out of scope here and would better be discussed in a CSS-relevant forum.

Yeah, feel free to raise it in www-style if you're interested.
Otherwise, fantasai and/or I will take care of it in due time, when we
have time for it.

> For the sake of curiosity: is there any reasonably accurate current draft that describes what 'content' is supposed to do on a non-pseudo element?

Nope.

> The most recent reference I could find is <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/> but that hasn't been updated in a while. It says "If the computed value of the part of the 'content' property that ends up being used is a single URI, then the element or pseudo-element is a replaced element. The box model defines different rules for the layout of replaced elements than normal elements. Replaced elements do not have '::before' and '::after' pseudo-elements; the 'content' property in the case of replaced content replaces the entire contents of the element's box." But I can't tell if that matches what you say or is the opposite.

Right, Content is out-of-date and hasn't been sanity checked.  Don't
let the recent-ish date fool you; it's just a stripped-down version of
the older 2003 draft, and the remaining parts haven't been seriously
gone over yet.

~TJ