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In the end, the native image ingredient isn’t simply coming: it’s right here. The image ingredient has landed in Canary—Google’s “beta” channel for upcoming Chrome releases—and we will attempt it out for ourselves proper now. Firefox isn’t far behind, and WebKit work is formally underway.
We bought the image ingredient this far, and now that we’re within the remaining phases we’ve one other alternative to assist issues alongside: testing and submitting bugs. Yoav Weiss is tough at work, testing and patching as a lot as potential earlier than this ships in Chrome steady—however the extra eyes we’ve on this, the higher.
Able to get began?
- Obtain Chrome Canary
- Copy and paste the next into Canary’s deal with bar:
chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features - Click on “allow”
The web page at chrome://flags permits you to tinker with the browser’s internals a bit, enabling and disabling options that may not fairly be prepared for prime time: the image ingredient is, for now, behind the “experimental net platform options” possibility—together with sizes and srcset. Don’t fear: altering this feature in Canary gained’t have any impact in your common Chrome app.
Kicking the tires
And now—lastly—we will check out the native image ingredient for ourselves. The Picturefill demos are an awesome place to get began, since Picturefill solely takes over within the occasion that the ingredient isn’t natively supported. One factor to notice is that this early model of image doesn’t re-evaluate when the viewport resizes—not less than till the subsequent main patch lands—so that you’ll have to reload the web page to see issues change, for now.
Experiment with the brand new markup for your self, both by forking the Picturefill repo and making modifications to the present demos, or by writing your individual from scratch. If one thing appears incorrect, file a problem on Yoav’s fork of the Google Blink code, or be a part of us within the RICG IRC channel to debate what you’re seeing—or simply to share your take a look at circumstances with us, so we will take a look at the Firefox and Safari implementations towards them when the time comes.
We couldn’t have made it this far with out the laborious work of the design and improvement group—and the extra testing we do now, the higher responsive pictures will probably be for it.