On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Bruce Lawson <bru...@opera.com> wrote: > 1) the 600w 200h bit replicates the functionality of the familiar Media > Queries syntax but in a new unfamiliar microsyntax which many have argued is > ugly, unintuitive and prone to error > (http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/2012/05/11/respimg-proposal) [snip] > I'm sympathetic to (2); why require a developer to think of and describe > every permutation if the environment, when she could instead describe that > which she knows - the images - and then allow the UA to take the decision. > As time goes on, UAs get cleverer, so behaviour improves without the markup > needing changing. > > But it doesn't seem necessary to saddle authors with (1) to acheive (2), as > far as I can see.
I think I more or less agree with you. However, when you look at MQ, literally the only things you want to decide on are width/height, and *maybe* grayscale/color. You really don't need to be generic here, so you might as well optimize the syntax to make it easier to type. I think this is too much, personally. I'd prefer more verbosity here, like: <img src=foo.jpg srcset="foo-big.jpg min-width:1000px, foo-...@2.jpg min-width:1000px 2x"> Importantly, I think I'd like to be able to use either min or max, but @srcset's microsyntax only talks about min sizes. (I got it wrong in my previous email.) ~TJ