Hoi,
The library of Alexandria uses it for the display of their awesome
Napoleontic lithographs.. It would be awesome if we had that code.. It is
actually open source..
Thanks,
Gerard
2009/4/24 David Gerard <[email protected]>
> 2009/4/24 Aryeh Gregor
> <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]>
> >:
>
> > That's what occurred to me. In that case, the only possible thing to
> > do seems to be to just have the image request wait until the image is
> > thumbnailed. I guess you could show a placeholder image, but that's
> > probably *less* friendly to the user, as long as we've specified the
> > height and width in the HTML. The browser should provide some kind of
> > placeholder already while the image is loading, after all, and if we
> > let the browser provide the placeholder, then at least the image will
> > appear automatically when it's done thumbnailing.
>
>
> There was a spec in earlier versions of HTML to put a low-res
> thumbnail up while the full image dribbled through your dialup - <img
> lowsrc="image-placeholder.gif" src="image.gif"> - but it was so little
> used (I know of no cases) that I don't know if it's even supported in
> browsers any more.
>
> http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/images/_IMG_LOWSRC.html
>
>
> - d.
>
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