RE: Adaptive images

>What about when the user zooms in on the image with an iPhone 3G? Wouldn't the user want the sharper image >then?
>
Yes, you might indeed...


>> I don't think any solution along the lines of "read from server and 
>> stop early" cuts it either, because latency is high on modern cellular 
>> networks in proportion to the bandwidth, so if I cut off the server 
>> connection early, my incoming bandwidth has already been wasted.
>
>Sure. On the other hand, if you need to load first a small image and then the large image when the user zooms in, >you will have wasted even more.
>
True - but ONLY if the user zooms.  And you don't know ahead of time if the user will do that :(.

Leonard

Received on Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:19:07 UTC