Load images on demand

[imkingdavid]

I agree that this should NOT be included into the core by default. By the time 4.0 rolls around, I'm sure it could be made into a plugin fairly easy. And I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult of a MOD for 3.0 or 3.1.

[bantu]

I see no reason whatsoever for including such a functionality with the core. Users who really want their board to behave in such a fashion can add such a jquery snippet by themselves just fine - even with 3.0.

Note that the bandwidth to be saved is rather marginal - avatars are only loaded once by browsers and subsequently cached.

+1

Also, the example page doesn't show anything with JavaScript disabled.

[ToonArmy]

For bbcode images this is hardly necessary since those should be browser cached anyway.

Well yes but BBCode images are less likely to be used more than once per page, board images such as avatars and signature images will be used all over the board. But I agree this sort of thing doesn't have a place in phpBB by default, and can easily be added with a template change.

[callumacrae]

I don't think this should be included. Sure, it would be good as a MOD, but it should be optional.

~Callum

[Nelsaidi]

Shouldnt be included - not something most boards would need, whilst some may need it (especially to control image loading, many posts on the same page, sometimes images are loaded simultaneously (spelling), so takes a while)

As a MOD/Plugin very easily done, as standard it would be an annyoance.

[imkingdavid]

Shouldnt be included - not something most boards would need, whilst some may need it (especially to control image loading, many posts on the same page, sometimes images are loaded simultaneously (spelling), so takes a while)

As a MOD/Plugin very easily done, as standard it would be an annyoance.

+1. With the way 4.0 is being done, most features can quite easily be plugged in at will. So making this part of the core would make such plugging in more difficult, imo.