Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point
Original Link: http://www.marco.org/2012/05/15/responsive-images-and-web-standards
I like the proposed
markup except for the tag name. “Picture” is much more specific than “image”, and I bet a very large portion of images used on the web are not pictures. “Photo” would be worse, but “picture” still implies a complete photo, illustration, or diagram, whereas “image” encompasses those plus patterns, textures, gradients, and every other use of image data in use on the web today. How about using that proposed
markup but instead calling the top-level tag ?
I have to agree with Marco on this, “Picture” really doesn’t describe this tag properly, simply because a lot of images on the web are not pictures necessarily.
Imagine if
Keeping this in mind, I’d like to vote for
It definitely fits better, and goes along the lines of