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		youngtaff on May 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WTFWG This is a very elegant proposal that needs work but has some merit and I'd like to see it built on http://nicolasgallagher.com/responsive-images-using-css3/ The current srcset proposal has terse syntax and just seems to be recreating media queries in another form. Surely we should adopt a media-queries based approach and fixing media-queries where they are broken.

wycats on May 15, 2012 [–]

Moving images to CSS works in some cases, but the ability to specify an inline img in HTML is very useful in general. As a thought experiment, imagine replacing all <img> tags with CSS. That's essentially what this is doing.

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