On 28.03.2009 15:27, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > I've been spending a lot of time in Firebug with RoundCube the past few > weeks. One thing I've noticed is that there are quite a lot of network > requests to freshly load the front page. With the default theme there are > around 45 separate requests for a little less than 250K. I was asking > myself how to reduce the number of requests and was reminded of something > interesting that I had noticed Gmail doing, and that is to consolidate many > icons into a single image and then use CSS to position the image as the > background of a fixed width/height block-level element. > > As I went to implement this, I began to realize that not only does this > approach reduce the number of network requests, but it also seems to > simplify the code a bit. With this method the code doesn't have to worry > at all about images or file names, but becomes somewhat image-agnostic by > only specifying the *type* of behavior it would like to see in a given > location. How that bahavior is implemented then becomes a simple matter of > CSS.
i think that this is a great improvement and i will try your patch as soon as i find time to recreate my roundcube dev installation. cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. [email protected] Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. [email protected] 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
