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Wow, how can this conspiracy-theory-like nonsense be voted to the top of the comments? I thought Hacker News was a rational place. The reality is that lazy loa
by akie 8y ago
Wow, how can this conspiracy-theory-like nonsense be voted to the top of the comments? I thought Hacker News was a rational place.
The reality is that lazy loading images really does help webpage performance, especially on mobile. You cannot properly implement it in the browser without additional information from the page developer - because you'll never know which images are so important that they will always need to be loaded, and which ones can be lazy loaded once they're almost in view.
We're talking about the addition of one attribute to the <img> tag here. There's no conspiracy, and there's no ulterior motive.
- bsdetector 8y agoNo we're talking about every website having to make this work because the default is to not require loading the resources or else be blamed for not being compliant with a spec forced on them by Google through their browser monopoly. Google should need some really good evidence to support this. What points do you disagree with, and why? Where are the metrics? If it's better performing than just priorities and flow control then by how much, and how do you justify breaking sites to achieve that margin?
- chronogram 8y agoThen just don’t specify the loading=lazy tag...
- bzbarsky 8y agoDoesn't matter. The actual discussion on blink-dev is pretty clear about the plan being for lack of that attribute to mean "use some heuristics of Google's choice to decide whether to lazy-load".
- simion314 8y agoDo you like the fact that Google can now create standards ? They have an idea, put it in Chrome and then ask Mozilla to catch up and implement the missing tags.
- sieabahlpark 8y agoWell they already decided to fuck the audio api. You have to have a direct user gesture to play any audio. Wasn't part of the spec and Mozilla is doing it via a page permission. Just Google about the chrome autoplay audio and you'll see plenty of issues about how they rollout features. Google has shown this is exactly what they plan to do with their Monopoly before with chrome-specific features that require the developer to be aware of.