Please reconsider implementing srcset

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Please reconsider implementing srcset

Unread post by jb_wisemo » 2017-06-21, 16:27

When srcset was first suggested for implementation in Pale Moon back in 2014, very few sites used it, and it was reasonably argued that using js or media queries was just as effective.

But since then a number of popular web page systems, such as WordPress, have switched to using it by default, with the image specified in the src attribute as the only fallback mechanism, and with the advise given to webmasters that the image resolution in the src tag is only for IE.

So maybe implementing the srcset and sizes attributes for img tags (and other things using those attributes according to W3C) has become worthwhile in 2017, even though it was not back in 2014.

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Re: Please reconsider implementing srcset

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-06-21, 16:34

We have srcset support. So I'm not sure what you're asking.
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Re: Please reconsider implementing srcset

Unread post by GMforker » 2017-06-23, 04:54

See also #1186.

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