Am 24.05.2012 10:27 schrieb Matthew Wilcox:
Excellent, sorry I was not clear on that; this is looking good!
I would like to re-iterate that this solution is another which puts
design properties into mark-up directly, and just like old<picture>
and srcset, this means that when it's time to re-design a site an
author is going to have to trawl through all<picture> elements
throughout the site to adjust them to fit the new design.
This is to my mind a major problem which stops any such solution from
being a general-purpose solution. I'd be ok for one-off special uses,
but I can't write website's that I know to be future un-friendly -
that's just storing up problems for the future.
This is true only for the art-direction use case, as MQs are removed
from the optimization use case.
Unless a new proposal comes up that solves this issue, too, I think this
is something we can live with, for two reasons:
- The art direction use case is somehow at the edge between content and
design. Serving a cropped version of an image is actually dealing with
content, even if it is about the design situation.
- New designs usually require other image dimensions, meaning that
images have to be recreated anyway. In my practice I have seen several
redesigns of websites; none of them was restricted to CSS, in all cases,
the whole websites were rebuilt, or at least the content was entirely
reviewed. (My experience is very much focused on corporate situations,
so this may be different in other fields such as academic.)
