On 2/13/12 5:33 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
2. On an album page where hundreds of pictures are expected to be shown, it is often required that pictures currently in a user's screen should appear as fast as possible. Loading of a picture outside the screen can be deferred to the time that the picture enters or is about to enter the screen, for the purpose of optimization user experience.This seems like something interactive user agents should implement.
This is a difficult optimization to make. You can only do it for images that have a height and width specified in the markup, and worse yet it leads to pretty bad flicker as the user scrolls (because network roundtrip times are measured in hundreds of milliseconds to seconds). So doing this by default is not likely to happen. Having a page opt into it is a different story, though.
-Boris
