Odd idea, sorry if it's occurred 50 billions times to everyone else already.
When including images on a freesite (or even linking to them as a "hey check
this out"), the analog on the web would be to use some sort of thumbnail or
such. On freenet, this becomes redundant and merely increases the
propagation size for a site, with no benefit.
A solution to this that would be workable on the node level would be to use
the image itself, scaled down through HTML attributes, thus giving the
appearance of a thumbnail, and "attaching" the image to the page.
This is nothing really exciting.
The interesting part comes in when we consider that the majority of
low-bandwidth users will probably be connecting to a higher-bandwidth fproxy
(casual users, and such). If the fproxy were to scale down the image
transferred to match the markup, then only when the user requested the
larger file would it be transmitted over the slower link, and the node would
still be prepped with the image.
This would probably only be easily done in the reference implementation with
boxes that have ImageMagick loaded on them, as it would become a simple OS
call.
Comments?
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