A Webstandard It Is…

Nearly three years after the initial request for a native responsive images solution in HTML, <picture>, srcset and sizes finally are officially a web standard.

Both, WHATWG and W3C landed patches in the past week including the <picture> element and its attributes to the HTML5 specification.

And here are the specifications for each on WHATWG and W3C sites:

This is the official part, the living standard is always to be found at picture.responsiveimages.org to which you can submit bugs and issues on GitHub via RICG.

This is a good point to say thank you to all who are involved into Responsive Images work. Special thanks goes to:

  • Mathew Marquis, the chairman
  • Marcos Cacares, the one who fought for it in the webstandard consortiums
  • Yoav Weiss, the one who made all possible (technically, implementation-wise)
  • Geri Coady, who did the design work
  • Simon Pieters, Tab Atkins, Matthew Wilcox, Bruce Lawson, Eric Portis, John Schoenick, Robin Berjon, Adam Bradley, Jason Grigsby, Scott Jehl, Kornel Lesinski, David Newton, and a whole lot more people who are all awesome!
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