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Lee Kowalkowski

Whatever happened to the Progressive JPEG? Whilst the JPEG was downloading you could see the detail increase.

With my limited knowledge of this technology, it doesn’t seem a great leap to just have the browser stop downloading the JPEG once it has enough detail to render it?

Isn’t that all we’re after? Why make all the authors of the web go to all the trouble of the extra markup and artwork, when this is all that needs to happen?