Posted by Jim Higson on 11/18/05 12:39
Dylan Parry wrote:
> As if the love poetry wasn't enough, Jim Higson just had to say:
>
> [Do browsers load CSS-specified resources immediately or as needed?]
>> ...
>
> I asked a similar question some time back, and IIRC the answers were
> that Firefox/Opera et al load as needed, but IE seems to load everything
> whether it needs it or not.
Ouch! That should really hit performance on IE if it has to load the normal
PNG image *and* the IE compromise GIF image.
> The question I asked was pertaining to background images for objects
> with "display:none;" but I presume that the same will apply here too.
>
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