- From: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:54:13 +0100
- To: "Jacob Mather" <jmather@itsmajax.com>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, 17 May 2012 02:29:11 +0100, Jacob Mather <jmather@itsmajax.com> wrote: > As I said, I understand that it is a hard problem, but the question > is, is it the correct problem. > > There are plenty of reasons not to do it, but is there any actual > reason that the approach is less correct than the current proposals? Yes, trading off latency to save bandwidth is definitely an incorrect approach. Bandwidth will keep increasing much faster than latency decreases (and there are hard physical limits to decreasing latency, while bandwidth could go up to infinity). On high-latency high-bandwidth connections (satellite, 3G/4G) it may already be cheaper to download all versions of all images than to wait for CSS to be able to select the right ones to load. Solution that requires page layout for image loading is a step backwards for performance. -- regards, Kornel Lesiński
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