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Show HN: Plaiceholder, transform images into pure CSS blurred placeholders
- contingencies 6y agoThese must be bigger than the originals in some huge percentage of cases...
- purplecats 6y agoyeah that current implementation is wildly poor. i imagine if they really wanted to, they could come up with an optimization and quality threshold that should alleviate this concern.
- joe-bell 6y agoHey, creator here! Could you expand on what you think is "wildly poor" about this implementation? Would appreciate any feedback on where to improve
- smashthepants 6y agoI don't understand what it's for.
- purplecats 6y agoto show placeholders for an image when the internet is too slow to load the image itself fast enough. the implementation they use is extremely inefficient though so it's not much of a win unless the images they're downloading is very large. in most cases, depending on how they load their css, it will actually increase the amount of time it takes to load the images.
- joe-bell 6y ago"the implementation they use is extremely inefficient" in what manner?
- parisianka 6y agoWhat about browser compatibility?
- joe-bell 6y agolinear-gradients are supported by the vast majority of modern browsers See https://caniuse.com/?search=linear-gradient https://caniuse.com/?search=linear-gradient