[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 11624] No support for lowsrc attribute of img tag

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11624





------- Comment #2 from contact at nickshanks.com  2007-01-18 11:26 PDT -------
Perhaps not optimal, but it is a solution that's backwards-compatible with IE
and NS.
But the High DPI case is not the reason I requested it.

If a website has images (that take a long time to load, for example NASA has
lots of TIFF files on it's site), they could load in the background while a
small progressive JPEG is loaded as the lowsrc, giving all of fast very lossy
display -> lossy display -> slow lossless display.

Perhaps not NASA themselves, but their images could be linked to from a
third-party site in this way. I'm sure there are many other real-world-usage
examples that would be implemented if the attribute were better supported.

And given that it never reached any HTML specs (to my knowledge), it would be a
quirks-mode only feature.


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