ImageLazyloading Plugin

Sponsoring and Donation

You want to support my work for the development of my extensions and my work for the Joomla! Project you can give something back and sponsor me.

There are two ways to support me right now:
- This extension is part of Github Sponsors by sponsoring me, you help me continue my oss work for the Joomla! Project, write bug fixes, improving features and maintain my extensions.
- You just want to send me an one-time donation? Great you can do this via PayPal.me/zero24.

Thanks for your support!

Features

This Joomla Plugin sets the lazyloading attribute to all images that passes the onContentPrepare Event to allow modern browsers to lazyload the images.

More information about the loading attribute:
- Description: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/img#attr-loading.
- HTML Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#attr-img-loading.
- Currently the loading attribute is supported in the following browsers: https://caniuse.com/#feat=loading-lazy-attr.

Configuration

Initial setup the plugin

• Download the latest version of the plugin: https://github.com/zero-24/plgcontentimagelazyloading/releases/latest
• Install the plugin using Upload & Install
• Enable the plugin from the plugin manager

Now the inital setup is completed and the plugin is running.

Option descriptions

Translations

This plugin is translated into the following languages:
- de-DE by @zero-24
- en-GB by @zero-24

You want to contribute a translation for an additional language? Feel free to create an Pull Request against the master branch.

Update Server

Please note that my update server only supports the latest version running the latest version of Joomla and atleast PHP 7.0.
Any other plugin version I may have added to the download section don't get updates using the update server.

Issues / Pull Requests

You have found an Issue or have an question / suggestion regarding the plugin, or do you want to propose code changes?
Open an issue in this repo or submit a pull request with the proposed changes against the master branch.

Beyond this repo

This plugin will be proposed as Plugin to the Joomla Core and will be part of the upcomming 4.0 Release. Please note that the core the plugin will be renamed to plg_content_imagelazyload and Joomla 4.0 core will ship with this plugin enabled by default. This plugin here acts as a backport for Joomla 3.

Special Thanks

David Jardin - @snipersister
Felix Arntz - @felixarntz - https://github.com/WordPress/wp-lazy-loading

For giving the inspiration for the plugin and the input and feedback on the actual implementation. Thanks :+1:

Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED)

This plugin can also been found in the Joomla! Extensions Directory: ImageLazyloading by zero24

Release steps

• build/build.sh
• git commit -am 'prepare release ImageLazyloading 1.0.x'
• git tag -s '1.0.x' -m 'ImageLazyloading 1.0.x'
• git push origin --tags
• create the release on GitHub
• git push origin master