On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:20:54 +0100, Mathew Marquis <m...@matmarquis.com>
wrote:
The key problem about designing a responsive images solution around
user agent characteristics not image characteristics is that authors
will inevitably make more false assumptions about what images match
what user agent characteristics than user agents will. As a result,
user agents may be forced to misinterpret media queries in order to
provide their users with better user experiences.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t this same reasoning apply to
layouts that depend heavily on media queries?
No, those are very different situations.
Layout is under author's control and is known to the author when the page
is authored. UA characteristics are not, and different UAs will have
different requirements.
Conversely from UA perspective: layouts vary wildly between pages, so UA
can't really mess with them. Bandwidth/DPI requirements are known to UA
and there can be same set of UA-specific rules that works for all pages.
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regards, Kornel Lesiński
