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by eyelidlessness 1181 days ago
A few things that immediately come to mind:

- you can preload the placeholder but still lazy load the full size image

- placeholders can be inlined as `data:` URLs to minimize requests on initial load, or to embed placeholders into JSON or even progressively loaded scripts

- besides placeholder alpha channel support, it also works for arbitrary full size image formats