Firefox Nightly now includes srcset and x-descriptor support behind a flag – instructions on how to enable and test the feature are here. The feature should be on-by-default shortly and sizes, w descriptors, and picture support are right around the corner. Nothing is certian, but if things keep progressing apace, full picture spec support should be shipping on-by-default in FireFox 33 on October 14th.
Over on the Blink side of things, srcset and sizes received the three magical “LGTM”s they needed to come out from behind their experimental feature flag and should be on-by-default in M38 — shipping in Chrome 38 stable on September 26th and Opera 25 around the same time.
Yoav has successfully wrangled the existing WebKit srcset implementation into shape, aligning it with the spec and setting the stage for sizes support.
Rumor has it that iOS 8 even supports x descriptors in srcset. Baby steps!
PictureFill 2.1, which brings srcset parsing in-line with the spec, hit beta.
If you haven’t given Picturefill a go yet, you really should code like it’s 2015 and give it a whirl. If you are using it, let them know!
- Chris Coyier wrote and video’d his initial experiences with the new markup over on CSS Tricks
- Tracy Rotton posted a great tutorial on how to use Picturefill in WordPress
- Matt Wilcox wrote up his initial (cautious) thoughts (Yoav’s response)
- Derek Johnson provided a great, complete overview of the spec
- Mat Marquis took to the A List Apart blog, calling all interested parties to help test the in-progress implementations.
- Speaking of things Apart, the Monkey Do folks wrote up their experience deploying Picturefill on the An Event Apart page (and I nitpicked thier post)
- Martin Wolf screencasted his experience kicking the Canary tires.
And hey! Weren’t those t-shirts great?
I got mine in the mail last week and I just want to say that they’re really terrific. Thanks again to Geri Coady for the design, United Pixelworkers for the printing, and RICG chair Mat Marquis for running logistics. And thanks most of all to all of you for buying them and making Yoav’s tireless implementation work possible!
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to buy the shirts now that the campaign is over. We don’t have anything firm to report yet but we’re looking into our re-print options. If you missed the boat on these, keep an eye out!
See you in a couple of weeks!
—eric