So my short answer is that using CSS for this is not a good idea :)
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Chris Rockwell <ch...@chrisrockwell.com>wrote: > I've been thinking about this off and on for a few weeks now. In my case, > I have one image carousel that loads up 18 images. I hid it on narrow > screens as it's no where near essential (I'm vying to have it removed > completely) but, like you've already stated, that doesn't fix the issue of > the user having to download it. In the future, for anything that isn't > essential, I'm going to load it via JavaScript after the page has loaded. > If it is essential, in the case of a carousel, I'm only going to load what > is shown immediately. Once the page content is available, I'll load the > other items in the background and add the controls to the carousel. > > Just my thought process so far. > > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:42 PM, John Johnson <j...@coffeeonmars.com>wrote: > >> Let's say for sizes above mobile (ie 600px) you have 2 or 3 jQuery >> sliders on a page, but for mobile, you just want 1 slider to be shown. >> >> my thought is to use CSS to hide the unwanted, but will there still be >> just as many HTTP requests, and therefore, should I look to a superior way >> to do it so that the load on the mobile device reflects only what the user >> sees? >> >> And what would that better way be? >> >> Thank you, >> >> John >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] >> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d >> List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >> List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html >> Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ >> > > > > -- > Chris Rockwell > -- Chris Rockwell ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
