> On Oct 28, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Rob Buis <rb...@igalia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I made a lazy image loading prototype earlier this year
> (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196698) and have been splitting it
> up into reviewable patches. The main implementation part landed recently so I
> am wondering about the next steps.
>
> One thing left to do for sure is cleaning up/adding tests. For one there are
> tests in http/tests/lazyload which can just be WPT tests, so I'll work in
> this area for sure. As usual, while adding new tests bugs may show up and
> more patches will be needed.
>
> Another possible task is implementing metadata fetch, but it makes the code
> more complex and chromium has backtracked from it.
>
> Changing the behavior of loading=auto to make lazy loading the default seems
> risky and should possibly only be done when lazy image loading is deemed
> stable enough.
>
> Yet another possible task is making lazy loading work for CSS backgrounds,
> this is implemented in the prototype but I don't think there are many tests
> for it.
Is there a way for content authors to opt in/out (depending on the default), or
does this just always follow what the default lazy loading setting is?
>
> A related task is implementing lazy loading for iframe's, I took a quick look
> and this looks like similar work to lazy image loading, but should be much
> easier to implement now the building blocks are there.
>
> Finally there is the task of setting threshold viewport distance values for
> triggering deferred loads. I only have access to iOS simulator, so I wonder
> if that is something Apple could help with?
>
> I do not have a strong preference among these tasks. Thoughts?
> Cheers,
>
> Rob.
>
> P.S: I intend to attend the WebKit Contributors meeting, so feel free to chat
> with me there about lazy loading.
>
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