I just saw this Coda 2 plugin for creating base64 images http://tinyurl.com/8byevqu. What’s the benefit?
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I just saw this Coda 2 plugin for creating base64 images http://tinyurl.com/8byevqu. What’s the benefit?
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You can encode simple tiny images directly in your CSS, saving an image hit. (Each connection between the browser and the server has a setup/teardown cost, sometimes larger than the image itself.)
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On Aug 29, 2012, at 8:49 PM, Todd wrote:
I just saw this Coda 2 plugin for creating base64 images http://tinyurl.com/8byevqu. What’s the benefit?
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The operative word being “simple”. To be used with discretion then?
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You can encode simple tiny images directly in your CSS, saving an image hit. (Each connection between the browser and the server has a setup/teardown cost, sometimes larger than the image itself.)
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I wouldn’t start with anything much over 64k total. And it looks really awful in your CSS, so if you care about the look of things, I would consider looking at sprites before you try this. Oh, and IE < 7 or 8 doesn’t like it too much, I think.
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On Aug 29, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Todd wrote:
The operative word being “simple”. To be used with discretion then?
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You can encode simple tiny images directly in your CSS, saving an image hit. (Each connection between the browser and the server has a setup/teardown cost, sometimes larger than the image itself.)
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Try adding this class to a line of text
I just tried this now on a CMS I’m working on, when a two-stage picker is being loaded by JavaScript, I indicate that it’s busy this way. The original was a 2K animated GIF. Base64 encoding makes it a little larger than that, but it gets cached in the CSS.
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On Aug 29, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Todd wrote:
The operative word being “simple”. To be used with discretion then?
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You can encode simple tiny images directly in your CSS, saving an image hit. (Each connection between the browser and the server has a setup/teardown cost, sometimes larger than the image itself.)
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Yikes! I see your point. That’s a whole lot of ugly.
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I used base64 images in the submission page for the Site Mapper Action (Freeway 5.5) as I knew the target browser would support them (no IE here) as well as eliminate any issues with the Action incorrectly handling file attachments as we’ve seen in the past.
Personally I like the idea of small images like this in the CSS as (for one thing) certain email clients will still load the image even if external images have been blocked by the user.
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Tim.
On 30 Aug 2012, at 01:49, Todd wrote:
What’s the benefit?
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