Comment sections for dayz.
Ars Technica published a Sunday-night feature about picture and the RICG… and the internet weighed in.
The feature (written by Scott Gilbertson) is excellent! Go read it if you haven’t already. Whereas most of the many articles about picture have been explanatory how-to tutorials written for web developers – focusing how the new markup works and how to use it – the Ars piece is all about people and process. It tells the story of the spec’s inception and maturation for the benefit of a general (though still tech-y) audience.
And boy, did that audience have things to say in response. The internet commentary that’s sprung up in the article’s wake is full of pedantry, hyperbole, hand-wavy reductionism, jokes, misinformation, excitement, congratulations, the inevitable suggestions that we should just use CSS or JavaScript, referendums on responsive design and XML, nostalgia, wackadoodle trolling, a call to return to table-based layouts, nonsensical arrangements of words and even the odd good idea.
You know what? I love the internet.
Meanwhile, Yoav’s Blink implementation of the spec has – with some fanfare – made it’s way from Chrome Canary into the Chrome Beta channel. Huzzah!
Here I’ll remind you that that same implementation is slated to ship to millions of Chrome stable users in 3-4 weeks. When it does, we’ll be able to track developer usage on the excellent chromestatus.com. I, for one, very much look forward to having a front-row seat from which to watch the responsive-image-ification of the web in real time.
Oh and we’re big in Japan
See you in a couple of weeks!
—eric