Matt Wilcox article

[eeeps]

Missed this last week. Raises concerns about putting layout in markup. A bit of a downer, but well-reasoned & written.

https://mattwilcox.net/archives/a-picture-perfect-problem/

[yoavweiss]

A few fallacies there (on which I would have commented if he had comments):

• srcset has nothing to do with layout breakpoints
• sizes's value is there to optimize on the 100% viewport width default. So in the worst case scenario where you can't add sizes, srcset will be as good as his server side solution (which sends viewport width wide images)
• So, layout breakpoints are only relevant for art-direction and extra optimization over server side solutions.
• Also - Layout breakpoints would get DRYed up in the future with CSS aliases.
• Finally, IMO, if your CMS doesn't allow you to control your image upload process and produce multiple resources per uploaded image, you should switch to a better CMS. (regardless of responsive images, your images are most probably compressed in a sub-optimal way)