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Allow end users to view images compressed to decrease page load times
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Description

enable qlow setting in mobile web (and app?) for all users not just wikipedia zero users

setting could be something like…

Images
Compress images
use lower quality image to save bandwidth decrease page load times
on/off/auto

Display images
Show only a text version of the site, useful on very slow connections.
on/off

where auto would take connection speed or ping time as a means of turning the qlow mode on for the current session.

Auto could be the default mode for readers.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
T69695: Replace "Thumbnail size" property in preferences with responsive resizing images

Details

Reference
bz66819

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:24 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz66819.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/M7lzCG08

Change 165941 had a related patch set uploaded by Robmoen:
Add alpha feature to provide zero like image quality reduction

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165941

Change 165941 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
Add alpha feature to provide zero like image quality reduction

Reason:
I'll abandon this then based on the fact there is now a reference to this patch on the bug :) We can pick it up later. Awesome :)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165941

From patch "Note that doing this in PHP would require varying cache by the new cookie and thus an ops review. Blocking until that happened. An alternative would be a JS-only solution. First, I would attempted to do it with JS only, and get usage stats. Then, assess usage and decide if we want to go into varnishes for that."

Sound pretty actionable to me. Just trying to figure out why Open questions / Non-actionable vs Submit a Patch to Alpha!

So am I give me time... I'm triaging and working out the best columns as we speak :P

The work of the Performance-Team since makes this outdated.