> What's the most efficient way of doing image based tabs? > > First thing that comes to my mind are CSS sprites: > > http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites > > However, there are two approaches and I am not sure which one is best: > > 1. using one image for all the tab states 2. using one image per tab > that contains all states for particular tab > > In either case it work but I am afraid that in case #1 the image will > slow down the page load - on the other hand loading 9 images for each
> of the tab is not fast either... > > Any ideas? > ---------------------------- At this year's @media Europe, Nate Koechley from Yahoo gave a talk on speeding up web pages and seemed to be of the opinion (and yahoo have done a lot of testing on this) that the fastest method is to include all tabs on one image and then use CSS for displaying/positioning them properly. You reduce http requests and one image containing all *should* be a smaller file size than 9 individual ones. http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/04/rule_1_make_few.html Close to being OT I think, but it is about using CSS to get them all set up properly. HTH, James ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
