hi,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Set Hallström <pub...@sakrecoer.com> wrote:
> On 2016-06-13 16:55, Christian Mandel wrote:
>> Am 13.06.2016 um 15:42 schrieb johannes hanika:
>>> - not sure we can get away completely without thumbnail support from
>>> our side, i'd hate to leave the rescaling to the browser after
>>> downloading 12MB of jpg..
>>
>> Just a little question: Since the browser window will be any size,
>> wouldn't that mean that the browser will rescale anyway, independent of
>> the image size? Or do you mean that the browser applies its bad scaling
>> to a well-scaled image close to its final size, with a better result
>> than direct bad scaling from the maximum size? Something along scaling
>> in multiple steps? If it is the latter, do you have some references that
>> explain the benefits etc.?
>
> I'd be interested too. After reading Johannes's mail, i tried with 20mb
> of jpg, and when scrolling, the computer is put at hard task. So i
> assumed it is matter of not overloading the browser.

yes, i was worried about bad scaling a bit, but mostly about loading a
large jpg over slow connections and then displaying the downsampled
version. seems like a waste of bandwidth and client CPU power.

-jo
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