[anon-e-moose]

I find it very interesting that apps are downloading images that are an order of magnitude larger (in file size) than they need to be. First we use expensive bandwidth to download the image, battery life to use the radio longer, and then more battery life to resize this image on the device. One easy thing they could do is resize and optimize images server side.

[talmand]

Why bother with that? They could just make the images the correct way to begin with.

[anon-e-moose]

The script would be for huge amounts of images that may change, if they are provided from a third party. Most thumbnail scripts implement caching, so effectively they are only doing the work once too.

[talmand]

That's a good point. My values would require that I run the thumbnail script myself and not the first visitor to see the image. Shoot, a Photoshop action could much the same thing.

But that's just me.