Your logic is sound, just some experience seems to be missing.
> the ‘not serious’ part is how anyone could find that acceptable
I guess you don't have a beeline on what everyone finds acceptable. That's normal, you can only share your perspective not everybody's.
> every scroll operation would be hideously slow
I guess you haven't experienced it because what you describe is not how it works.
The two frames per second is not streaming a 60 frame per second source down to you at two frames per second it's capturing two frames per second from the source and sending them to you because that's what your bandwidth will permit.
> Your ‘streaming solution’ only makes sense if... Highly unlikely.
Only if the goal is a reduction in bandwidth used viewing the page. There are many other goals were streaming the browser makes a helluvalotta sense.
I get you had this focus on bandwidth because i think it's the main obvious focus of this thread but there's an expanded context in which these things operate. I'm sure you'd appreciate that if you'd experience it.
> the ‘not serious’ part is how anyone could find that acceptable
I guess you don't have a beeline on what everyone finds acceptable. That's normal, you can only share your perspective not everybody's.
> every scroll operation would be hideously slow
I guess you haven't experienced it because what you describe is not how it works.
The two frames per second is not streaming a 60 frame per second source down to you at two frames per second it's capturing two frames per second from the source and sending them to you because that's what your bandwidth will permit.
> Your ‘streaming solution’ only makes sense if... Highly unlikely.
Only if the goal is a reduction in bandwidth used viewing the page. There are many other goals were streaming the browser makes a helluvalotta sense.
I get you had this focus on bandwidth because i think it's the main obvious focus of this thread but there's an expanded context in which these things operate. I'm sure you'd appreciate that if you'd experience it.