Smooth image loading by upscaling - nickf on codeIn this post, I will discuss a technique we use at SoundCloud to make the loading of image appear smoother and faster. The situation: soundcloud.com is a single page application which, among other things, ends up displaying a lot of users’ avatars. The avatars are shown in many different situations from a tiny avatar on a waveform to a large profile image, so we have encoded the image into many di
