How Apple.com will serve retina images to new iPads

Re:How Apple.com will serve retina images to new iPads by CWIZO on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @06:37PM (#3737148)

One way to improve this would be to set a cookie and then on the next request serve _2x images. That way all second requests would perform much better and consume less bandwidth, and considering the sizes of this _2x images we can neglect the overhead of the cookie ...

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Re:How Apple.com will serve retina images to new iPads by kennu on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @07:28PM (#3737381)

Unless you actually do want to serve the low-res images first, to make the pages download and render faster initially. On 3G it probably makes a big difference.

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