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This doesn't seem too useful in the first world anymore now that we have 4G connections and higher resolution screens on our phones than our desktops.
by aianus 12y ago
This doesn't seem too useful in the first world anymore now that we have 4G connections and higher resolution screens on our phones than our desktops.
- dannyr 12y agoThe first world would still benefit because web pages would download faster on mobile. Also, the first world is just a subset of internet users.
- joosters 12y agoI don't agree with your 4G comment, as its coverage is poor, performance is patchy and smaller files will still download quicker regardless of your max speed. But your point about high res screens is definitely true. Hell, we first had 'retina' hacks and bigger images specifically for our phones! Why is a site going to want to serve up smaller files for screens with more pixels?
- Renaud 12y agoI would presume that the higher resolutions of mobile devices over laptops and desktops is just a transient thing. Laptops and desktop monitors are slowly catching up. We're just living in this part of history where it was easier to manufacture small high-DPI screens than large ones. It's not going to last. Heck, I'm typing this on a 13" Yoga Pro laptop with a near 4K resolution. So the sizes needed for larger displays will bump up over the next few years and we're still going to have the same issue of having to serve massively larger images to large screens than small ones.