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> The user was just on that website No, the user was not just on that website. You didn't look at the example closely enough. The contextual menu was on an ext
by lapcat 3y ago
> The user was just on that website
No, the user was not just on that website. You didn't look at the example closely enough. The contextual menu was on an external link.
- olliej 3y agoWhen you share links with people, many (most? at this point) include previews. Those previews are performed on the sender side, e.g. the person sharing the link. The "Sharing" view is part of macOS and iOS, not part of the browser - any other browser or app can also use the sharing pane and also be a recipient of the information being shared. If the recipient service/sharing extension needs or supports preview images, then the sharing view produces them, which requires network loads. In this specific case there isn't even a question of "can you use, or is it appropriate to use, safari's local render?" because no such render exists.
- lapcat 3y agoYou've repeated your main comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38028909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38028909 multiple times in these threads, but you're misinformed. Read my reply to that comment.