Florian’s Compromise
Posted on:I’ve been fairly quiet in this group for a while now. Part of that was wanting to let the dust settle on all the chaos that was surrounding this topic a few short weeks ago, and part of that was … Continue reading
I’ve been fairly quiet in this group for a while now. Part of that was wanting to let the dust settle on all the chaos that was surrounding this topic a few short weeks ago, and part of that was … Continue reading
Kornel Lesinski just published a new proposal on the WHATWG mailing list this morning. He proposes a new element in HTML called <pic> which is shorter to write than <picture> would be. This solution combines the advantages of our proposal … Continue reading
Update: After being inspired by the suggestions of Florian Rivoal (editor of the CSS Media Queries spec) and Markus Ernst over on the whatwg mailinglist Respondu now supports a new hybrid format that combines picture and srcset in a way … Continue reading
Hey everyone, I guess a lot of you guys aren’t signed up to the whatwg mailing list so I thought it’d be good to give an update on what’s going on. I don’t claim to be an authority, in fact … Continue reading
One of the points that I have seen raised against Matt’s most recent suggestion involving templates has stuck a major chord with me: indirection. A Warning What I’m about to suggest seems quite “off the wall” in relation to what … Continue reading
Despite significant opposition from developers, the srcset attribute has been added to the WHATWG’s HTML spec by Ian Hickson. He has written a long email to the mailing list commenting on many of the issues and explaining his actions. As … Continue reading
After a lot of reading over the weekend and a fair bit of discussion on the WHATWG mailing list, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions: Initially, I totally misunderstood how <img srcset> works I still don’t want it, and … Continue reading
Managing responsive designs is hard, so let’s use our <head> Here is what I believe is the best proposition yet for managing our responsive designs. This includes managing our CSS, JavaScript, and inline <img>’s. <head> <meta name=’case’ data=’breakpoint1′ media=’min-width:350px’ /> … Continue reading
After months of discussing possible solutions for responsive images on the WHATWG mailing list, I discovered yesterday that another, different syntax was proposed on the WHATWG IRC channel. Additionally, when I joined the discussion, it became apparent that the majority of … Continue reading
EDIT: We can all agree that the picture element can become very verbose. Especially if you are thinking about supporting a wide range of devices with multiple screen sizes/resoltions. I’ve put together an example of some markup that would help … Continue reading