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Re:Show HN: An Almost Ideal React Image Component by lozenge on Saturday June 02, 2018 @06:32AM (#17213900)
Downloading all the images provides a good user experience. If your intranet has a GB of images on a single page, that's on you - even if browsers did as you suggest, any older browser would still saturate your network link.

These fancy image placeholders seem more designed to save on CDN costs than to provide a good UX.

Re:Show HN: An Almost Ideal React Image Component by TheRealPomax on Saturday June 02, 2018 @01:40PM (#17215522)
I think you misread what I said as "I want the browser to load all the images, all the time" instead of "I want the browser to download and render in ways that are appropriate to the constraints of the network and processing power, not have to rely on a million folks each inventing their own lazy-loader".