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It's probably to do with google's algo that favours a certain content-to-image ratio. Medium gives the author access to easily embeddable images that often have
by redact207 7y ago
It's probably to do with google's algo that favours a certain content-to-image ratio. Medium gives the author access to easily embeddable images that often have nothing to do with the article just so the article's not just one giant block of text.
I would have loved to have seem some photos of this industry out of Africa though.
- adrianN 7y agoOk good, but why do these pictures have to be 2-3MB each? Each one of them would have taken an hour to download just a few years ago (or today, if you live in a less well developed area of the world).
- obituary_latte 7y agoI wonder if there is a way browsers could preemptively “compress“ (I doubt that’s the correct terminology) prior to downloading? Like somehow grab every nth bit, combine, render and then allow for further requests to refine at user discretion. Wonder if anyone has ever tried something like that.
- markdown 7y agoThis used to be a feature of Opera. If you enabled it, it would run all webpages through the Opera proxy, which would downsize everything for you.
- slavik81 7y agoThe wavelet-based image formats like JPEG 2000 were designed to make that sort of thing possible. They never really caught on, though.
- shakna 7y agoI don't think that's even possible with the byte-ordering of a lot of the formats we use today. Like the pass extraction of PNG [0] would make it somewhat possible, but you'd need to be dropping packets which you might as well receive. I don't think you'd be able to break after the first pass. JPEG is probably worse. However, the super-modern formats that are still gaining popularity, like WebP absolutely do support this. At the core of WebP is block prediction, so a low-bandwidth application might actually assume the values of certain blocks so it doesn't need to fetch them. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#4Concepts.EncodingPassAbs https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#4Concepts.Encod...
- bootloop 7y agoI know that Opera had this feature once and Google Chrome on Android does this via it's "Lite mode": https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392284?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392284?co=GENIE.Pl...
- swebs 7y agoThis feature is built into Jpeg images, though most image editors don't save them with this enabled by default. People call them progressive jpegs. https://www.thewebmaster.com/dev/2016/feb/10/how-progressive-jpegs-can-speed-up-your-website/ https://www.thewebmaster.com/dev/2016/feb/10/how-progressive...
- Izkata 7y agoUsed to be really common around the late 90s/early 2000s...
- buboard 7y agoYeah People have to justify the cost of a their retina screens
- wil421 7y agoI was downloading MP3s to my MP3 player with a 16MB san over ISDN circa 2000. For most people in the US it hasn’t taken hours to download an MP3 for over a decade maybe 2.
- adrianN 7y agoCa 2000 will always be just a few years ago to me. Besides, there are areas in Germany today where you can't get >1Mbit connections.
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