“Championing responsive web standards” is the primary goal of the Responsive Issues Community Group, and it continues to be—we put it right there in the name, after all. But our secondary goal—paving a new way for designers and developers to … Continue reading
Since our Chair is so lousy at posting updates to our mailing list, Eric Portis—author of this incredibly helpful article on the sizes/srcset syntax—is going to be helping out! We’ll be posting something every other Friday—short general-purpose posts on using … Continue reading
First, a little housekeeping: while the community group is site is great for ongoing discussion, it doesn’t offer anything in the way of tracking specific goals and issues. Up to this point we’ve been using a GitHub repo on my … Continue reading
Paul Cotton, one of the HTML WG Chairs, has arranged for me to work with several members of the HTMLWG on a final draft of the `picture` specification, as we discussed at the HTML WG weekly teleconference on July 26th. … Continue reading
The Drupal team is currently discussing the inclusion of the picture markup pattern in the Drupal 8 core. They seem to be leaning towards including the proposed element itself, rather than an equivalent pattern using Picturefill. I’ve let them know … 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
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
It can be frustrating seeing this Community Group go quiet, especially following a surge in traffic that very literally brought the Community Group site down. We have to understand—and I’m speaking in no small part to myself, here—that most standards … Continue reading
Our goal is a markup-based means of delivering alternate image sources based on device capabilities, to prevent wasted bandwidth and optimize display for both screen and print. From an accessibility standpoint, it should at the very least have something equaling … Continue reading
Hey guys, I’ve compiled a few responses to some of the more common questions/suggestions we’ve been seeing pop up during these discussions. http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/common-questions-and-concerns/ It doesn’t look like my account has permissions to add this page to the group navigation or … Continue reading
