Consider prefetching article images before marking them as loaded

[lingz]

Consider that for an article or text page, before we declare it in the ready state (and finish all related animations / transitions), we might want to prefetch the images. The advantage of this is the experience will be smoother and there will be no bouncing images pushing the redraws on the page. The disadvantage of this is the text is delayed until all the images are ready. What are our thoughts?

[emilgoldsmith]

I guess especially know we have our loading animation, it would work really well, right? Even though text comes slower.

[lingz]

Yeah. I mean I think the whole images loading and pushing the text of your page down is a shitty experience and part of why apps feel better than websites.

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I guess especially know we have our loading animation, it would work really well, right? Even though text comes slower.

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[emilgoldsmith]

Yeah, let's do that. I definitely agree it's a cool experience having everything show up. And with our animation it doesn't seem like it's reacting slowly, just that it's working a little bit. Or nearly just like it's instant, just with a cool transition

[zanemountcastle]

Instead we could use "Progressive" JPGs instead

[emilgoldsmith]

Closing this for now, if we find the need for it later we can open a new issue