Tommy, what is the status of this?

I believe this was the suggestion to send down a super-scaled down version of the image first and then progressively make it better. No updates as of yet though.

I think my previous comment was wrong, as that is tracked in  issue 597809 . So then this might be to ensure that the image we send down from the server to the client is in the correct size? I'm not sure though.

dtrainor: Do you remember what this is about?

Is this still relevant?

I'm not sure it is. I guess it depends on our plans for still sending a scaled down image first, but if we're going with checkerboarding / white, I guess this is unnecessary?

We might want to scale down even the high quality image if it's much larger than the area it's rastering to on the screen.

True. Let's keep this then.

Obsolete, WontFix.