[webkit-dev] WebKit runtime image compression

[David Hyatt]

Yes, CG will lazily decode images when they are first painted in WebKit.

dave

On Dec 16, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Kalle Vahlman wrote:

> 2008/12/15 Paul Pedriana <ppedriana at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks. I didn't mean to suggest something like this should be part  
>> of
>> WebKit. I was wondering if anybody had any experience they could  
>> share that
>> might help me or others come to faster conclusions about the  
>> usefulness or
>> feasibility of this in custom ports. If I implement the formats  
>> below I can
>> report back on my results and possibly donate to ports that might be
>> interested in this, such as OWB.
>
> Well, for CE device oriented applications the feasibility of the
> compression really comes down to the balance between memory
> consumption and CPU speed. If you compress, you will (potentially)
> spend lots of time decompressing the images but can view bigger pages.
> If you don't, it will be faster but limit the amount of in-memory
> images.
>
> That said, Federico Mena Quintero did some research about this few  
> years ago:
>
>  http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2005-11.html#moz-images
>
> I'm not sure if that idea has realized itself in any project though.
> At least lazy decompression of images based on visibility on the
> screen sounds like a great idea (eg. when you read only 25% of a very
> long page with images, like planets), I wonder if anyone is doing that
> already in browser engines?
>
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