Re:Free Lossless Image Format
by zyxley on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:02PM
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I wonder if it would be feasible to have browser functionality that starts the download, then stops it once it has enough data to make an image the width of the element on the page. (Maybe then continuing the download later if it's resized larger?)
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You could certainly build that in as a heuristic similar to how many browsers implement <video>: issue Range requests for a certain chunk size and stop once you have enough data. It's not as efficient as being able to get it all in one go but if you have a progressive image format that might be a better experience if it can start rendering quickly and fill details later.