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LazyImages: Implement lazyloading of css background images

Project Member Reported by rajendrant@chromium.org, Aug 17

Issue description

Defer loading the background image until the image is near the viewport.

Note that placeholder of the background image need not be fetched, since its dimensions will not be used for layoutting the image.
 
The background image lazyload support landed as part of

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1161208
lazyload support for CSS imageset is pending. However, imageset has low usage. Only 12% of android pages use imageset. So, I am delaying working on this work.

More details on the 12% number:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606941

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