Fixing Wayback Machine archives of thulite-based sites by using a different LQIP approach

[danielfdickinson]

I've noticed that lazysizes based sites tend to archive badly in the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org). This is because with lazysizes the LQIP is what ends up archived. (Since the Wayback Machine does not (AFAIK) archive or execute JavaScript).

What I think is a pretty good solution is something I worked on with Bryce Wray and another Hugo user, for which Bryce created quite a good post: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/06/responsive-optimized-images-hugo/.

How do would you feel about my converting @thulite/images into that method (initially in a separate repository of course)?

[danielfdickinson]

Ok, I was wrong, it just loads very slowly. Sorry for the noise. For example https://web.archive.org/web/20241003174513/https://images.thulite.io/docs/shortcodes/picture/

[h-enk]

Very slowly indeed 😄