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Pinterest does something really clever related to this - not so much for data placeholder but for images. They have precomputed the dominant color for each imag
by philfreo 12y ago
Pinterest does something really clever related to this - not so much for data placeholder but for images. They have precomputed the dominant color for each image and show that color while the image loads.
http://littlebigdetails.com/post/56782380031/pinterest-before-image-is-loaded-the-background http://littlebigdetails.com/post/56782380031/pinterest-befor...
- koyote 12y agoI believe Google images does the same. Not sure who was first though.
- michaelchisari 12y agoI just checked, and it doesn't look like they do.
- ChrisClark 12y agoThey do on the mobile image search at least. Large blocks of the dominant color first, then images load.
- elsurudo 12y agoThat's a really nice detail. I guess it's like the old "progressive" JPEGs from the dialup days, but the lowest level of them (1 pixel).
- archagon 12y agoOooh, that's a nice site. Gotta add it to my daily reading!
- gingerlime 12y agoTrello does the same
- callum_hart 12y agoThats well cool! Never noticed that before
- showsover 12y agoThe email subscription of that site is broken though. Using my own emailaddress is not allowed: > This email address looks fake or invalid. Please enter a real email address