Re:The Tyranny Of Web Standards
by jcampbell1 on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:18PM
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That is not nearly as backwards compatible because you are adding markup. Will the picture element inherit it's style from the inner img element? I don't think so. Now you have to go mess around with the CSS and have two different pathways for the style to be applied based on the browser.
Also, <video> fallback doesn't really work. If you have an h264 video, there is no good way to make it play in all browsers with markup alone (Firefox won't fallback to flash).
Re:The Tyranny Of Web Standards
by bsatrom on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:51PM
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I don't disagree at all. Like I said in the post, srcset will one day make a fine solution and given the right input, might even end up being developer-friendly. I hope that ends up being the case, because the current syntax is cryptic and vague.
Also, <video> fallback doesn't really work. If you have an h264 video, there is no good way to make it play in all browsers with markup alone (Firefox won't fallback to flash).