Sending more data to primarily empower mobile devices sounds rather counter-intuitive On Sep 18, 2012 7:06 PM, "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > In VisualEditor we ended up putting all CSS rules that include images in > > *.icons-raster.css and *.icons-vector.css files, which are loaded > > dynamically based on the window.devicePixelRatio property. > > > > It has it's flaws, but the good thing is that it spares the device from > > loading both versions. I dislike the approach we are using and am open > > minded to alternatives, but any solution that makes a client load both > > isn't really going to work. > > > > It's great to avoid loading both when you can, and with CSS icons that's > relatively doable. > > For what it's worth though, a (different) load-both scenario is in actual > use on http://www.apple.com/ > > It's not perfect, but as a workaround until srcset is live I'm happy enough > with it. Think of it as progressive loading. ;) > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
