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Using progressive decoding to let a browser cancel an in-flight image request once it has enough resolution will not work, because of the lag between each step.
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- Jake Archibald Web platform engineer known for work on service workers and browser APIs
The problem is there's significant lag between each of these steps, to the point where it's very likely that you'll receive megabytes of data you don't need, per image, before the response is successfully cancelled.
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↗The present and potential future of progressive image renderingjakearchibald.com
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