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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by philfreo on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @11:54AM (#8997900)
Pinterest does something really clever related to this - not so much for data placeholder but for images. They have precomputed the dominant color for each image and show that color while the image loads.

http://littlebigdetails.com/post/56782380031/pinterest-befor...

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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by elsurudo on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @12:08PM (#8998011)
That's a really nice detail. I guess it's like the old "progressive" JPEGs from the dialup days, but the lowest level of them (1 pixel).
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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by archagon on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @12:47PM (#8998283)
Oooh, that's a nice site. Gotta add it to my daily reading!
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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by showsover on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:50AM (#9002188)
The email subscription of that site is broken though. Using my own emailaddress is not allowed: > This email address looks fake or invalid. Please enter a real email address
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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by koyote on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @11:59AM (#8997948)
I believe Google images does the same.

Not sure who was first though.

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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by michaelchisari on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:03PM (#8998407)
I just checked, and it doesn't look like they do.
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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by ChrisClark on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @02:09PM (#8998924)
They do on the mobile image search at least. Large blocks of the dominant color first, then images load.
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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by callum_hart on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:03PM (#8999766)
Thats well cool! Never noticed that before
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Re:Non-blocking UI's with interface previews by gingerlime on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:08PM (#8998446)
Trello does the same
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