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The idea to assign a thumbnail to the page.

The problem

To get a thumbnail (screenshot) of the page, we need to use some 3rd party services, such as Alexa, Snapcasa etc. Problem is that they are to slow. These services add request of the thumbnail to the queue so you are unable to get the thumbnail of the page instantly. What's more, you became dependent on them.

Use Case Description

  • Page thumbnail in the search results
  • Thumbnail in various community sites (such as [1])
  • Link submit sites, like [2]
  • Any other sites, which wants to display thumbnail of the page.

Proposed Solutions

My Solution

Brief description of the solution and of how it address the problem at hand.

Processing Model

Explanation of the changes introduced by this solution. It explains how the document is processed, and how errors are handled. This should be very clear, including things such as event timing if the solution involves events, how to create graphs representing the data in the case of semantic proposals, etc.

Limitations

Cases not covered by this solution in relation to the problem description; other problems with this solution, if any.

Implementation

Description of how and why browser vendors would take advantage of this feature.

Adoption

Reasons why page authors would use this solution.