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> Browsers already load images from top to bottom Is that true? I believe that they kick off the requests to load images from top to bottom, but I don't think
by untog 6y ago
> Browsers already load images from top to bottom
Is that true? I believe that they kick off the requests to load images from top to bottom, but I don't think they prioritise bandwidth in such a way that downloading image #3 will never make downloading image #1 slower.
- hagy 6y agoThat is my understanding as well and I checked mozilla documentation to confirm. [0] That link also covers loading="lazy" attribute for <img> tags, which I've commonly used to defer loading. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/img#attr-loading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...