Progressive quality of images about imager.js HOT 5 CLOSED

An example can be found at http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/programmas/975-nieuwsuur

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Hey @bartzon. Interesting loader implimentation, but what it is the benefit of it? It seems like a lot of extra requests and image weight to me. Imager.js was built to avoid requests and minimise image weight.

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The example page is, as you can see, very heavy on images. Since it's one site accessed from all over the world (without geolocated cdns and the like) where uplinks might be slow, we need to display images as soon as possible.
Also, we don't control the filesize of the big header image, so this can potentially be many kbs.

Yes, this'd be some extra requests (10,20,40,80,100, 5 requests), but the next quality would only be requested when the image has fully loaded. I understand your requirements are a bit different than ours :)

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Hi @bartzon thanks for opening up this discussion, but as mentioned by @jonlow we're very keen on performance and to also avoid any unnecessary HTTP requests. So because of this I'm going to close this issue, but do feel free to keep the discussion going if you believe there is some details/benefits we've not considered.

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No problemo :). Looking forward to where this lib is heading.

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