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thinker3197 / progressively

A JavaScript library to load images progressively 🌇
https://thinker3197.github.io/progressively
MIT License
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"progressive" in what sense? #3

Closed jezmck closed 7 years ago

jezmck commented 7 years ago

Does it depend on smaller versions of the images existing?

Are you just avoiding using the word "lazy"?

I am on mobile, so difficult to check, but think it should be part of the description.

thinker3197 commented 7 years ago

Progressive rendering is different from lazy loading. In lazy loading you wait for the content to get fetched from the server and then display it. However in progressive loading, we render the image in stages, so that the user won't be seeing a blank screen or loader. Progressively does this by requesting a smaller version of the image (which gets fetched quickly) and display it to the user while the original image is fetched asynchronously and then replaced with the smaller one using the progressive blur effect.

thinker3197 commented 7 years ago

Closing the issue