[webkit-dev] The SrcN responsive images proposal

[Antti Koivisto]

Ignoring other aspects of this, the idea of making attribute name an
enumeration is somewhat distasteful. It will require ugly special parsing.
The platform has plenty of attribute values that are lists already.


  antti


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

> My initial impression is that it seems a bit overengineered.
>
>  - Maciej
>
> On Oct 19, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Yoav Weiss <yoav at yoav.ws> wrote:
>
> Hello WebKiteers,
>
> I'd like to get the project's opinion on a recent responsive image
> proposal by Tab Atkins dubbed srcN:
> http://tabatkins.github.io/specs/respimg/Overview.html
>
> This proposal covers all the major responsive images use-cases: DPR based
> resource selection, viewport dimensions based resource selection and
> art-direction.
> It does so while avoiding previous implementor concerns regarding the
> <picture> element and its complexity, and while providing better authoring
> tools for viewport based resource selection than previous proposals.
>
> The srcN proposal does come to replace the srcset DPR switching syntax
> which recently landed in WebKit (an effort I was a part of). OTOH, srcN's
> x-based URL syntax replicates srcset's DPR syntax, so I believe large parts
> of that code can be reused in srcN's implementation.
>
> Will the project welcome patches implementing the srcN proposal? (Possibly
> behind a flag)
>
> Thanks,
> Yoav
>
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