- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:25:05 +0400
- To: "Dean Jackson" <dino@apple.com>, "Ryan Seddon" <seddon.ryan@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-houdini@w3.org
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:42:33 +0400, Ryan Seddon <seddon.ryan@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like WebKit, and I assume Blink, already put image decoding of > background images off the main thread. [1] > > As a developer I would love to see this as an attribute on <img>, would > this include <picture> as well? Since it's <img> that does the "work", generally everything should work the same for <picture>. > [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99790 > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote: > >> Three days late, but I finally thought of something I wish I'd proposed >> at >> the meeting: image decoding on a background thread. >> >> For this I guess we'd need some attribute on IMG/Image/HTMLImageElement >> that would indicate that the main thread doesn't have to decode this >> image. Why do we need an attribute? >> I'm not sure if we need a new "ready" event, or just assume that "load" >> means loaded and decoded. "load" already means that, I think. Or possibly completely loaded and decoded enough to know the image's dimensions. Why would we need a new event? -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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