[webkit-dev] Content-DPR header

[Yoav Weiss]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Sam Weinig <weinig at apple.com> wrote:

> Hi Yoav,
>
> Can you give a concrete example of when this will be used?  I’m having
> trouble understanding when an author will want to change an images
> intrinsic size but not have control of the markup.
>

It's not about control over markup, it's about control over style.

Let's say you're now given the following task: write a script that will go
over all your server's HTML files and make your images responsive by adding
a `srcset` attribute to all <img> tags. Since some of the images may change
their display dimensions at different viewport sizes (i.e the "variable
width" use case
<https://dev.opera.com/articles/native-responsive-images/#variable-width-images>),
you want to add multiple resources with `w` descriptors to each <img>. Each
one of these resources will be pointed towards your shiny new image server,
which has access to the original high-quality image as well as the
currently displayed one (the "src image").

But, since you don't know if all the images have their dimensions defined
in CSS (and you suspect that a large chunk of them don't have CSS based
dimensions), you want to make sure that the intrinsic dimensions of the
displayed images remain the same even when you deliver images of varying
"physical" dimensions. How can you achieve that?

Well, the answer is, you want to modify the intrinsic size of the delivered
images to be the same as the "src image"'s intrinsic dimensions. With
Content-DPR, that's easy. You simply set it to the value that is the
delivered image width divided by the "src image" width.
That way, the browser takes the Content-DPR into account, scales the
delivered image and it ends up with the same intrinsic dimensions as the
"src image".

If you don't have markup control, the same exercise applies, but would
require the full-fledged Client-Hints in order to actually deliver resized
images.


>
> On May 29, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Yoav Weiss <yoav at yoav.ws> wrote:
>
> As a first step towards the Client-Hints implementation, I submitted a
> patch <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145380> for Content-DPR
> support
> <http://igrigorik.github.io/http-client-hints/#confirming-selected-dpr>.
> A discussion followed on the thread, so I'd like to move it to the list,
> in order for it to get higher exposure.
>
> Content-DPR is an HTTP response header that enables style-agnostic image
> resizing,
>
>
> What exactly does "style-agnostic image resizing” mean? I am not familiar
> with that term
>

It's not an official term. I meant to say that it enables you to perform
image resizing without taking into account the style rules that control the
way in which the resized image will be displayed.


> by enabling the server to adapt the image's intrinsic size so that layout
> will not break, even if the image's dimensions are not defined in style.
>
> Opinions welcome! :)
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