Posted by Els on 11/18/05 13:07

Jim Higson wrote:
> Dylan Parry wrote:
>> As if the love poetry wasn't enough, Jim Higson just had to say:
>>
>>> Ouch! That should really hit performance on IE if it has to load the
>>> normal PNG image *and* the IE compromise GIF image.
>>
>> Actually, looking at your case again, as the CSS for IE literally
>> overrides the CSS for other browsers, it /should/ (will?) only load the
>> GIF image, so shouldn't (won't?) affect performance.
>
> But if IE "load[s] everything whether it needs it or not", surely it would
> load both, unless there is some kind of inference engine that logically
> proves the PNG will never be needed :)
>
> I suppose the only way to find out for sure would be a packet sniffer
> (probably ethereal). Shame I don't have a Windows box to test this out on.

If you upload a page with a test case, I don't mind visiting it with
my Windows machine, and you can see in your logs which images are
loaded.
My guess is both though, largely based on the earlier background-image
and display:none issue as mentioned by Dylan.

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