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Re:Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails by tinganho on Monday January 27, 2014 @04:42PM (#7133455)
I just see one problem with this solution. You can't create Retina images out of base64 strings on any web browsers today.
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Re:Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails by madeofpalk on Monday January 27, 2014 @05:35PM (#7133849)
> You can't create Retina images out of base64 strings

Why not? There's no such thing as a 'retina image', they're just a larger resolution. There's nothing stopping you from requesting a @2x set of thumbnails

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Re:Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails by simonw on Monday January 27, 2014 @07:09PM (#7134312)
Are you sure you can't just serve up a 400x400px base64 image and put it in an image element with a height and width of 200?
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