Ask HN: Why have browsers not provided a client solution for image scaling yet?

Re:Ask HN: Why have browsers not provided a client solution ... by logicalmonster on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:35PM (#35527541)

In most cases where users are uploading images, you probably want to get the biggest possible version you can get for more future flexibility. It's always possible to make a larger image smaller, but making a small image look good bigger in the future isn't possible as that extra detail would be lost.

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Re:Ask HN: Why have browsers not provided a client solution ... by morphicpro on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:41PM (#35527618)

Not always, Look at Instagram, there's a really big reason the web page support is not the same as the mobile client. It much easier to deal with these types of issues natively than in some web agent. There is a huge cost to uploading all those images into memory and scaling server side vs the saves letting the clients do the work.

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Re:Ask HN: Why have browsers not provided a client solution ... by logicalmonster on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:34AM (#35540414)

I'm not a Facebook/Instagram user so I don't know how they work, but is it true that they don't ask users to upload the biggest possible images/videos they have? Kind of shocked as I thought they'd always want to siphon up as much information as they possibly can.

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