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- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:44:35 +0000
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Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #6 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-03-23 22:44:31 UTC ---
Use-cases for this:
1) Browsers could let the user download the full-size image instead of the
thumbnail when they click "Save Image As..." or similar. (Not too risky if
it's a separate context menu option; if the author inadvertently or
deliberately specifies something that's not actually a full-size equivalent,
the user can figure it out and go back to get the thumbnail.)
2) Browsers could download the full-size image instead of the thumbnail if
they're outputting to a high-resolution medium, such as print or an iPhone 4
display. This use-case is shakier, because a) authors who want to prevent
redistribution of their pages could put fake full-size links to prevent users
from printing, and browsers would have to implement heuristics to stop this;
and b) the full-size image might take up far too much bandwidth to be worth it.
One example of a site that could use this extensively is Wikipedia. Many
articles have pictures, and practically all of those are thumbnails of much
higher-res images. There are probably lots of users who download the low-res
version because they don't realize the high-res one exists (although that's
just a guess, there's no way to tell).
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