Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
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. wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Matthew

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > All good points, thanks. Sorry I'd missed you saying

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 5/14/12 11:55 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: That's why I mentioned an inline

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
All good points, thanks. Sorry I'd missed you saying

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. Please also forgive me not being too > technically aware of things at a browser level; so I'm not really sure > how valid my feedback can be: > > The URI thing is actually using URI Templates, which are already > pre

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Thanks for the feedback. Please also forgive me not being too technically aware of things at a browser level; so I'm not really sure how valid my feedback can be: The URI thing is actually using URI Templates, which are already pretty far along? http://code.google.com/p/uri-templates/ I thought th

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Hi all, > > have any of you seen this proposal for an alternative solution to the problem? > > http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/2012/05/13/an-alternative-proposition-to-and-srcset-with-wider-scope/ > > I like the general idea and from an

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I'd contest that it is no harder to understand than it is to understand why your CSS behaves differently when a JS element acts on the mark-up. We are used to one stack defining how another acts. We do it all the time. Adding classes to mark-up to control display, or just the cascade on its own doe

Re: [whatwg] An alternative to and srcset, is this realistic?

2012-05-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > have any of you seen this proposal for an alternative solution to the problem? > > http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/2012/05/13/an-alternative-proposition-to-and-srcset-with-wider-scope/ > > I like the general idea and from an author pers

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

2012-05-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Hi all, have any of you seen this proposal for an alternative solution to the problem? http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/2012/05/13/an-alternative-proposition-to-and-srcset-with-wider-scope/ I like the general idea and from an author perspective this seems great; but I know nothing of the brow