Website Design Forum - Image concatenation: Any good?

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Image concatenation: Any good?

Charles A. Landemaine

2007-11-01, 7:18 pm

Hi guys,

I see we have folks who know their stuff on this board, so I'd like
your opinion on image concatenation (when you put several graphics on
one single image and use in in your style sheet). Do you think this is
good? If it's bad, why?
I always use image concatenation...It loads fast.
ie:

http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/freshports/
www.pcbsd.org

Thanks for your opinion,

Charles.

duncan.midwinter@googlemail.com

2007-11-02, 7:20 pm

On Nov 1, 10:31 pm, "Charles A. Landemaine" <landema...@XXXXXXXXXX>
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I see we have folks who know their stuff on this board, so I'd like
> your opinion on image concatenation (when you put several graphics on
> one single image and use in in your style sheet). Do you think this is
> good? If it's bad, why?
> I always use image concatenation...It loads fast.
> ie:
>
> http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/fr...s/www.pcbsd.org
>
> Thanks for your opinion,
>
> Charles.

I always use this technique for rollover effects - it probably doesn't
play fair with older browsers.

Bergamot

2007-11-03, 4:16 am

Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
>
> I see we have folks who know their stuff on this board

FYI, this isn't a "board". It's a Usenet newsgroup.

> so I'd like
> your opinion on image concatenation (when you put several graphics on
> one single image and use in in your style sheet). Do you think this is
> good? If it's bad, why?

It is a good technique for rollovers. IIRC though, IE has some kind of
weird problem and can request it from the server for each instance
instead of from the cache, but I don't remember the details. So one
large image can make the page load slower in those cases. I don't let
that stop me, though. :)

> ie:
> www.pcbsd.org

It adapts poorly to smaller window sizes. :(

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Berg