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I would rather see nothing, or a solid block of colour, than a very blurred image; I have heard this opinion espoused by others as well when the topic comes up. A blurred image, especially with a sharp edge, is surprisingly disconcerting, and having the content change while you’re looking at it too.

I wish people would just leave it to the browser to handle, and I wish that browsers would start improving their approach to this sort of thing so that developers don’t feel the need to mess around with it, because they always get it wrong.

Let me be absolutely clear on this: I hate all scroll-based lazy loading of images.




Solid color isn't actually too bad of an idea, I'll look into that.

That said, if you disable JS, your browser will load all the images, and that's not exactly ideal itself for most people (the page loads ~10x longer)


Images load in the background, while the page is already usable.

Browsers could still help a lot with better efficient image loading, but the default is not all that bad.




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