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Yeah, that looks good, but it would be nice if it had a way to specify different resolution copies of the same image for the future when we have varying screen

Yeah, that looks good, but it would be nice if it had a way to specify different resolution copies of the same image for the future when we have varying screen sizes and varying ppi. Good proposal though, and hope that this takes off.

ashishb4u 14y ago
"Good proposal though, and hope that this takes off." it was a proposal made 19 years back?
- lukeholder 14y ago
  woosh
- jofo25 14y ago
  I can feel the breeze of it going over your head from my desk.
- lewisflude 14y ago
  does not compute
pmarca 14y ago
Personally, I'm skeptical.
- deleted 14y ago
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cstuder 14y ago
You know, there used to be a 'lowsrc' attribute for the image tag. (A lower resolution image, which would be downloaded and displayed before the download of the 'src'-image file.) It apparently is ignored by most browsers now and no longer allowed in HTML5. http://www.ssdtutorials.com/tutorials/title/html5-obsolete-features.html http://www.ssdtutorials.com/tutorials/title/html5-obsolete-f...
jcfrei 14y ago
I got a bad feeling about this img tag - what if everyone just uses it to post pictures of cats and people making duck faces?! the internet might be flooded with useless content!
antihero 14y ago
Could do it like HTML5 video, and use the figure tag. <figure> <img src=blah.png dpi=72/> <img src=blah_hq.jpg dpi=300/> <caption>The fabled Blah stalks it's prey.</caption> <copyright year=1997>John Doe</copyright> <license href="http://cc.org/sharealike">CC Sharealike</license> </figure> And then your browser could choose the DPI most like your screen.
pornel 14y ago
It's being worked on: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/tip/responsive-images/responsive-images.html http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/tip/responsive...
- iand 14y ago
  You missed the flippant humour in the parent.
- Evbn 14y ago
  Why does that is proposal have informal slangy cruft like "poly fill" and exclamation points? That is improper for a stabdard.
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
Can't you just scale down to half-size an interlaced gif/jpeg and have the browser intelligently decide to stop downloading once it is at sufficient quality?

ashishb4u 14y ago

"Good proposal though, and hope that this takes off." it was a proposal made 19 years back?

lukeholder 14y ago
woosh
jofo25 14y ago
I can feel the breeze of it going over your head from my desk.
lewisflude 14y ago
does not compute

pmarca 14y ago

Personally, I'm skeptical.

deleted 14y ago
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cstuder 14y ago

You know, there used to be a 'lowsrc' attribute for the image tag. (A lower resolution image, which would be downloaded and displayed before the download of the 'src'-image file.) It apparently is ignored by most browsers now and no longer allowed in HTML5. http://www.ssdtutorials.com/tutorials/title/html5-obsolete-features.html http://www.ssdtutorials.com/tutorials/title/html5-obsolete-f...

jcfrei 14y ago

I got a bad feeling about this img tag - what if everyone just uses it to post pictures of cats and people making duck faces?! the internet might be flooded with useless content!

antihero 14y ago

Could do it like HTML5 video, and use the figure tag. <figure> <img src=blah.png dpi=72/> <img src=blah_hq.jpg dpi=300/> <caption>The fabled Blah stalks it's prey.</caption> <copyright year=1997>John Doe</copyright> <license href="http://cc.org/sharealike">CC Sharealike</license> </figure> And then your browser could choose the DPI most like your screen.

pornel 14y ago

It's being worked on: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/tip/responsive-images/responsive-images.html http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/tip/responsive...

iand 14y ago
You missed the flippant humour in the parent.
Evbn 14y ago
Why does that is proposal have informal slangy cruft like "poly fill" and exclamation points? That is improper for a stabdard.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

Can't you just scale down to half-size an interlaced gif/jpeg and have the browser intelligently decide to stop downloading once it is at sufficient quality?