[webkit-dev] The SrcN responsive images proposal

Yoav Weiss yoav at yoav.ws
Sun Oct 20 05:39:15 PDT 2013


On Oct 20, 2013 11:31 AM, "PERIER Romain" <romain.perier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> srcset is not complicated enough for a web developer?  why do you want to
add complexity for the developer ? The srcset specification already convers
DRP switching and viewport

The reasoning behind the new proposal was detailed by John Melloer at
http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/2013/10/14/reasoning-behind-srcn-replacing-srcset-and-picture/

In short, srcset's viewport syntax doesn't cover the art-direction use-case
and doesn't really cover the viewport based resource selection use case
either.
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