On May 15, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Jason Grigsby <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are you saying that all of the image source listed in srcset would have the 
>> same aspect ratio? In the example Hixie provided, face-icon.png is a 
>> different ratio.
>> 
>> Another way to read this could be that you’re fine so long as your sources 
>> with different densities (e.g., 1x, 2x, etc) always have the same ratio. If 
>> so, I’m unclear on how that solves the problem when you have images that 
>> need different cropping like the Nokia example which is vertical in one case 
>> and horizontal in another.
> 
> That's what I'm saying.  Authors *can* ensure that, within a
> particular breakpoint, their multi-res images all have the same ratio.
> It's a good idea, since the *intention* is that the multi-res
> versions are all exact same image, just at different resolutions.
> 
> If you don't do that, you get unpredictable results, but you asked for that.
> 
> If you *do* do that, then you know what your aspect ratio will be, and
> you can predict which breakpoint will be chosen and pair that with MQs
> to adjust the rest of your layout.

Hmm… Doesn’t that then mean the solution to the use case is simply “don’t do 
it”? Or am I missing something?

BTW, I know things are a little heated on irc right now so please read my 
questions as sincere attempts to understand how this would work and not as 
attempts to be obstinate. :-)

-Jason

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