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Re:Free Lossless Image Format by iopq on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:30PM (#10320358)
The client would download the first 1KB for an icon, 4K for a thumbnail and the whole image for the full size. The best part is that all of those are actually the same file, not separate embedded thumbnails inside the file.

The client could decide BY ITSELF to download only 2K for a thumbnail because it's currently on 3g.

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Re:Free Lossless Image Format by guelo on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:49PM (#10320461)
Where are you getting 1KB and 4KB from? The compression is highly dependent on the image so there's no way to know the quality of the thumbnail image.
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Re:Free Lossless Image Format by iopq on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:03PM (#10320941)
Maybe a future version of the format would specify useful cut-off points for browsers to make the decision inside the header. Then the browser can decide to download 4K version on wifi and 1K version on 3g.
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