| mit | Posted: 2 Apr 2024, 10:01 AM |
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 yeah whatever Admin Posts: 538 Joined: 4-May 16 |
In the writeup for the Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion there are 56 images, totalling about 15MB. I think it's a bit rude to force visitors to download all of it the moment they arrive. Our options were the following: - split the writeup into multiple pages (lame) - serve thumbnails and link to the full size images (tedious both for me and the readers) - or lazy-load the images, so they only get loaded as you're scrolling the page I'm not really a fan of lazy-loading in most contexts. Browsers now natively support lazy loading which is a bit less awful but there's a tendency for the page to reflow as they load in. This seems to happen (though not quite as bad) even if you specify image dimensions. For the slide2 page I set all of the images to lazy loading. With any luck nobody noticed the difference, in which case I guess I'll continue to do that on new projects. If anyone has a strong opinion about this then feel free to speak up. ------------- |
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