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Posted by Neredbojias on 08/09/07 14:00
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:59:49 GMT
James scribed:
> Hi All,
>
> My site design has a repeating background image that scrolls down the
> left hand side of the page, it's a mere 256px by 16px. However, the
> nature of the design means that the image would work if it was only
> 1px in height.
>
> A long long time ago I read on a site about optimizing web pages that
> said to _not_ use images 1px high for repeating backgrounds because
> browsers struggle to show so many instances of an image on the screen.
> In these days of 256mb ram minimum on even old machines does this
> still apply (if it ever did) or can I use this image.
>
> Say my viewport is 800px high, a 16px high image is rendered by the
> browser 50 times but a 1px high image is rendered 800 times.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts?
I used a 2x2 gif one time wherein 2 of the 4 pixels were transparent, and
ie6 struggled just rendering that. When you scrolled the page, the part
with this background like kind of "stuck" for a sec or 2. On the other
hand, Mozilla (-pre Firefox) had no trouble with it.
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Neredbojias
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