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

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

It is not exactly going to make moving around more pleasant when any
scrolling results in reloading/rendering.  Stuff like Google image
search does that, and while it delivers a fast first response,
scrolling/searching around gets more irritating.

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David Kastrup