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I think that wasting bandwidth is wasting a resource that costs energy, time and money.

That's the reason why I'm suggesting this feature. Besides avatars, graphic signatures and all posted images consumes bandwidth too, and double that amount, because what is a save for users is also a save for ...

Forcing people to click to load images is not really something I like the idea of, however to achieve that for images posted with BBCode is really trivial with 3.0.
There is no need to click, the images load automatically when you reach to them... javascript makes that trick possible.

You can see ...

The gap can be minimized.

In this page the offset is set to 50 http://tips.freedev.com.ar/demos/load-images-ondemand.html
see the source
// offset of bottom to load images, on px
var offset = 50;


If it's changed to this
// offset of bottom to load images, on px
var offset = 1000;

The gap ...

But people don't read all posts in all pages. So is useful. How much?

I don't know, perhaps a poll give us a better idea. Or we can use this topic to post our own experience.

In my case, at least in a 50% of times I don't read beyond the first post of the topic... so many topics, so few time.

Here is a demo http://tips.freedev.com.ar/demos/load-images-ondemand.html

Something like that can save a lot of bandwidth to communities(avatars), users and the external sites victims of the |img| tag :lol:

And it seems easy to accomplish with this http://code.google.com/p/jquery-images-ondemand ...

Like google does http://foremostmedia.blogspot.com/2010/03/increase-website-load-speed-with-neat.html
Sprites http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites


It can be a good idea to reduce requests to servers, make the load faster, save bandwidth...


For custom skins(or custom imageset), online css ...