Ask HN: Displaying a million images on a page, in a way that doesn't suck?

2 pointsby Rayzarvor 16 Jahren3 comments

Well, CoolIris seems like a possibility...any other ideas?

4 comments

Just look into lazy loading. Google image search is doing it, as it Facebook now as far as I can tell. Basically all of your images on one page and you load them based on the user's scrolling and what's visible. There's a plugin available from jQuery that can help get you started:

http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload

Rayzarvor 16 Jahren

Yeah, I saw this on Facebook recently and was thinking of looking into it, thanks for the link!

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

somagrandvor 16 Jahren

Haha through flash. Enjoy performance tanking.