Well if you need them you can't be a part of this 1MB club.

It's not a bad thing, it's just a thing.

If you were able to calculate the space in the document flow for those images, I'm fine with the lazy loading. I hate when the page text appears rendered long enough that I start reading, but then lazily loaded items cause the flow to rearrange the text so that I lose my place.

I imagine it should be pretty easy with javascript to set up dummy images, and replace them... probably also doable in pure css, just make them a block element or something, with a set size...

You don't have to imagine everything. Normally the lazy-loaded image should be seeded with transparent SVG that as the same dimension. It's a solved problem.

I miss lowsrc. It had a point.

Wasn't this what progressive jpeg was invented for?

I’m not surprised. The whole point of it is that you can reasonably load it over 3g.

If you have a few megs of images that never show up because they take too long to load, there is no point.

You dont really need full size/resolution images on a web page.

You people are why some sites have ugly blurry logos/images on my 4k screen

more the fault of the site devs for not using css media queries, or svg ;p

Does getting in the club assume you have a low resolution screen?

SVG only works in a few places.

You do for full width retina images on 1440p+ monitors.

Yeah true but even with small images, you can hit that cap quickly.

You could use SVG images.