I took it one step further even earlier using a Flash file as a backdrop which was able to achieve the glass effect while still being in a dynamic moveable frame. Can't recall if it used iframes, would need to dig up the code but considering the era it probably did.
I use a combination of Aquasnap's magnetic border feature with MS Power Toys hotkeys and it has been a treat. Still room for improvement tho', esp. if I can force specific browser tabs into particular windows based on purpose.
This seems to have been edited already, it's missing some ad hominem attacks and the recommendation to see a therapist which were definitely present when this article was linked.
That's an interesting concept, although it would generate a ton of bogomips since each client has to generate the image themselves instead of one time on the server.
You'd also want "seed" and "engine" attributes to ensure all visitors see the same result.
Unless you don't actually care if everyone sees the same results. So long as the generated image is approximately what you prompted for, and the content of the image is decorative so it doesn't really need to be a specific, accurate representation of something, it's fine to display a different picture for every user.
One of the best uses of responsive design I've ever seen was a site that looked completely different at different breakpoints - different theme, font, images, and content. It's was beautiful, and creative, and fun. Lots of users saw different things and had no idea other versions were there.
You could at least push the work closer to the edge, by having genAI servers on each LAN, and in each ISP, similar to the idea of a caching web proxy before HTTPS rendered them impossible.
Push the work closer to the edge, and multiply it by quite a lot. Generate each image many times. Why would we want this? Seems like the opposite of caching in a sense.
