Large images on mobile

[Enda]

Hiya,

Posting from a bus somewhere in Michigan. I've been reading the mobile site on my iPhone and its been great. One problem is downloading the occasional massive image. They're a real battery killer. An animated gif is often about 1mb in size. Three of them on a thread and you might as well be downloading an mp3.

Any chance you could remove large (>100kb, say) images from the mobile skin? I'd say removing all images is a bit severe.

Just a suggestion.

Thanks,

Enda

[limpid]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that's possible. The images aren't hosted on the site so the site doesn't know how big they are.

[Enda]

Understandable. Thanks anyways.

[leviramsey]

The most that might be able to be done is for the mobile skin to not load images, but render them as a button that triggers some javascript to load them.