Originally Posted by
Prospero
The site is hosted on Format, a platform designed to showcase photography. Format provide quite an extensive range of templates but once you eliminate the templates devised for landscape photos, there are few options remaining. The images are all 800px wide and will reduce in scale to fit the browser window but should not scale upwards beyond 100%, so I’m not quite sure what is happening here.
I suppose that my issue here is that I am wanting to see them in landscape format (as they are in the wiki on this thread:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...ing-777-a.html). Vertical makes complete sense for mobile devices (and looks fantastic) but horizontal (in my onion) works better for desktop devices.
Originally Posted by
Prospero
I am experiencing similar load times on a slightly slower broadband connection. For example, the 77M image is 1.2MB so at that size the load time will be a second or two on a fast connection, and perhaps 5-6sec on slower connections. What I can do is run further tests with the vector to bitmap conversion to see if further efficiencies can be made without degrading visual output. So please bear with me on this.
[Edit to add: I have just checked the speeds again (on some images that I hadn't loaded before) and it is now drastically faster, the image is loaded in less than 0.5s.]
Note that I would have expected an image of that size to load faster than that, surely a 1.2MB file at 77 Mbps should be able to download in much less time (1.2MB = 10.8 Mb, 10.8 Mb / 77 Mbps = 0.135 s [please excuse the notation hacking here]). I think that the issue may be due to the template as it loads the image in a blurred format instantaneously and then unblurs it.