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Phil Endecott

Image compression 

In Opera proxy promises 'game changing' browser speed

It will be another proxy server that re-compresses images to lower quality.

This just about works on desktop systems if the JPEGs were originally saved with an unreasonable quality setting and the user doesn't look too closely. I can imagine that it might work better on mobile devices if the browser is going to scale the image down for display anyway.