- From: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 02:18:22 -0700
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
>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
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