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jonas21 • yesterday at 5:04 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

It can speed up the loading of the above-the-fold content because the images on the rest of the page can be loaded as the user scrolls closer to them.

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talim • yesterday at 5:20 PM

You can do this with just the 'loading' attribute on img elements and let the browser handle it without the gratuitous animations:

   <img loading="lazy" src="image.jpg" alt="..." />
knorker • yesterday at 5:07 PM

So you agree that for text, it should NEVER be used. And you are only arguing for lazy loading of images?