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Bug 10341 - Please spec img.lowsrc IDL attribute
Summary: Please spec img.lowsrc IDL attribute
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: has-testcase
Depends on:
Blocks: 22253
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Reported: 2010-08-10 15:04 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-09-02 09:55 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-08-10 15:04:54 UTC
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#other-elements,-attributes-and-apis

Comment:
Please spec img.lowsrc

Posted from: 91.181.4.193 by ms2ger@gmail.com
Comment 1 Anne 2010-08-15 15:26:02 UTC
Maybe we should try to remove support for this too. I cannot find any compatibility issues. As far as I can tell the reason it was added to Opera was because of some tests somewhere...
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2010-08-15 15:44:22 UTC
For reference: <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12305>. That said, I'd like to see it gone too.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-24 01:17:21 UTC
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I've mentioned lowsrc in the obsolete section, but I haven't specified the IDL attribute. Neither Opera nor Mozilla seem to support it (I couldn't test IE), and WebKit only seems to support it because of CNN in 2007; CNN has since changed, it seems.
Comment 4 contributor 2010-09-24 01:17:40 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5476.
Check-in comment: Mention <img lowsrc>
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5475&to=5476
Comment 5 Ms2ger 2010-09-24 07:10:23 UTC
Based on code inspection and <http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/645>, Gecko does support it.
Comment 6 Simon Pieters 2010-09-24 08:39:12 UTC
Is there some known page that would break if .lowsrc is not supported?
Comment 7 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-28 19:37:08 UTC
Hm, I wonder why I thought Firefox didn't support it. Weird.

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: We all seem to want to drop it, and nobody has given a page that still exists that needs it, so I suggest we try dropping it and see what happens. We can always bring it back if it turns out to be a lost cause.
Comment 8 Ms2ger 2013-06-02 13:46:40 UTC
We broke this accidentally in Fx20 and got 2 bug reports about it in the few weeks since:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864367
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=878509
Comment 9 Edward O'Connor 2013-06-03 21:34:21 UTC
Please don't move bugs from an HTML WG component to the WHATWG/HTML component. That's what "Clone this bug" is for.

I'll leave this bug here and clone back in the other direction this time.
Comment 10 contributor 2013-06-06 21:51:03 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7929.
Check-in comment: Define img.lowsrc, needed for compat
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7928&to=7929