2009/4/24 Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com>: > That's what occurred to me. In that case, the only possible thing to > do seems to be to just have the image request wait until the image is > thumbnailed. I guess you could show a placeholder image, but that's > probably *less* friendly to the user, as long as we've specified the > height and width in the HTML. The browser should provide some kind of > placeholder already while the image is loading, after all, and if we > let the browser provide the placeholder, then at least the image will > appear automatically when it's done thumbnailing.
There was a spec in earlier versions of HTML to put a low-res thumbnail up while the full image dribbled through your dialup - <img lowsrc="image-placeholder.gif" src="image.gif"> - but it was so little used (I know of no cases) that I don't know if it's even supported in browsers any more. http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/images/_IMG_LOWSRC.html - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
