Sent by Kevin Cannon on 15 December 2005 12:12
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:54:43AM -0500, Christian Montoya wrote:
> On 12/13/05, Kevin Cannon [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
> > I'm not that keen on combining the 6 images into 1 large one and changing the
> > background position, as that would mean the homepage would take too long to
> > appear.
> If you combined the 6 images into 1, that one image would load faster.
Well, It won't load faster than loading & showing 1 image first, and then
loading the rest afterwards. (see my other reply for a more detailed
explanation)
> You can preload images, just use your imagination, load them off
> screen with position:absolute; and give them a size of nothing. But I
> really discourage that.
Yep, that's one option available. Why would you discourage that, yet promote
merging images into one large one. The extra markup you'd have to add?
Thanks,
- Kevin
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