Posted by William Gill on 10/03/07 16:40

dorayme wrote:
> If you have text in a box (not a picture of text), you won't get
> much benefit *overhead wise*.
>
I was looking at ways to keep Kb bloat under control. Even the smallest
text graphic takes a couple Kb. A few characters of text "treated like
a graphic" would only take a few bytes. Think "a CSS button", but not
in the traditional nav bar. Like a notice in the normal text indicating
"the next meeting has been scheduled."

> It is almost always best to use html text, and size the box
> itself to grow with the text if it threatens to bust out of the
> box.

Absolutely no argument there.

> Sometimes one can do this with banners and headings to some
> effect. But my experiments on this have always disappointed me
> when I see the results in IE. If you prepare the images right
> (and there are some rules to observe here), it can work
> brilliantly in some browsers.
>
>
>> I guess it's just the engineer in me that always wants to see "what
>> if...?"
>
> Be very careful of this tendency, William, it is a double edged
> sword. Here is an example of the tendency and its swordlike
> effect:

Someone much greater than I (Thomas Alva Edison) once said "I have not
failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." I'm not even half
way there on this, but even the most assiduous seeker must recognize a
poor ROI when he/she sees it. :-) Of course It's still intriguing to
poke around.

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