https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43846
--- Comment #5 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> --- Looking at a couple of pages, the size difference is indeed relatively small once compressed: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_m%C4%9Bn -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 239K Dec 23 15:06 seznam.html -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 32K Jan 10 16:46 seznam.html.gz with 200+ 'srcset' attributes removed: -rw-r--r--@ 1 brion staff 181K Jan 10 16:46 seznam-nosrc.html -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 27K Jan 10 16:46 seznam-nosrc.html.gz Only 5kb difference in the transfer amount; this will be by far dwarfed by the actual images. Rather than a preference exactly as requested, I'd recommend considering a combination of: Reduce unnecessary image payload: * something like bug 32138 to avoid loading images that aren't onscreen Make image payload size switchable: * client-side option to disable the use of srcset for people on high-resolution displays but metered connections (think iPhone or Android or iPad on a 2g or 3g connection with a hard limit) Reduce unnecessary HTML payload: * load sections separately, as we're starting to on mobile... ?? * cleaner naming conventions to avoid having to output 3 full URLs in every <img> ** (eg if we have @1.5x and @2x suffixes, we could add the 'srcset' or set 'src' at runtime from JS, without having to store any of the common) ** this would only save 1kb or so on most pages, but it adds up eh -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
