[webkit-dev] Picture element implementation

[Maciej Stachowiak]

In fairness I should note that enabling by default in nightlies doesn’t necessarily mean anyone will ship it right away. But it’s still a good thing to do to get better test coverage.

 - Maciej

> On Jul 1, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin at webkit.org> wrote:
> 
> The barrier on entry is rather low to enable something in the nightly. It is your responsibility to make sure we don't get tons of bug reports, crashes, or security issues.
> 
> You need to have okay test coverage and make sure the tests work on all the ports (if relevant for the given platforms obviously).
> 
> Then you just make a patch and post the link to the bug on the mailing list. :)
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> On 7/1/14, 1:58 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote:
>> I've landed support for the sizes part of the syntax, currently on
>> HTMLImageElement only, behind an off-by-default compile time flag.
>> What is the proper procedure to request permission to turn on the flag
>> by default?
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Yoav Weiss <yoav at yoav.ws
>> <mailto:yoav at yoav.ws>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>    On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Benjamin Poulain
>>    <benjamin at webkit.org <mailto:benjamin at webkit.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>        On 3/31/14, 9:32 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote:
>> 
>>            I'm currently implementing the picture element
>>            <http://picture.__responsiveimages.org/
>>            <http://picture.responsiveimages.org/>> in Blink, to extend
>>            the srcset
>> 
>>            implementation and handle more responsive images use-cases
>>            <https://groups.google.com/a/__chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/__vuLeAM9fJww/UHnMz7QLRWgJ
>>            <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/vuLeAM9fJww/UHnMz7QLRWgJ>>.
>> 
>> 
>>            I'd be interested in working with the WebKit project in
>>            order to port
>>            that work into WebKit, once it's done. Is the project
>>            interested in the
>>            feature?
>> 
>> 
>>        I think it is worth experimenting with those. Please use a
>>        compile time flag for the picture element, it still is unclear
>>        how popular/useful this feature is going to be.
>> 
>> 
>>    A patch for the 'sizes' part of the picture specification is waiting
>>    for review at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133620
>>    Feedback will be highly appreciated :)
>> 
>> 
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