Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 21 December 2014 at 17:47, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I see no such sluggishness at that page, using Google Chrome.
>> The page loaded seemingly instantaneously, and both scroll-bar
>> scrolling and incremental search (C-f in Chrome) also seem
>> instantaneous.
>>
>> Am I missing something?  Did you means something different from this?
>
> FWIW, using Safari on OS X 10.10, the page displays after 1.5s, scrolling
> and searching works immediately, and the page is fully loaded, with all
> of the more than 1000 images, in about 14s.


That is remarkable. However for pages with that many images I would
tell the image sizes in the HTML code and then do the actual loading
of the images in the scroll event:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.onscroll