Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-04 Thread Cott Lang
You might want to play with mod_expires to set expiration headers on images. On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 10:44, Robert Hunt wrote: > Is there a way (as in, response header or other HTTPServletResponse setting) > that can persuade a > browser to use a cached version of an GIF/JPG that's used for a roll

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-04 Thread Robert Hunt
Well, thanks to all the advice (and advisors), there are two workable solutions. For me, I'm liking the ease of display/maintenance for now. (Just wrap an around the text and voila! You have a cool hightlighting link.) However, an arsenal of buttons (and the software to manage it) may be nec

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-03 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I agree, and I actually had typed up almost an identical message but then decided not to send it (for some reason that I don't really recall). I do think the CSS-only approach is a nobel goal and is moving in the right direction. A fairly big problem with using CSS nowadays though is browser a

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-03 Thread Nikola Milutinovic
Robert Hunt wrote: After some analysis and trial & error, I've found** that the correct JS syntax in this application is: {HTMLElement}.style.backgroundImage = 'url( ' + img1.src + ')'; where {HTMLElement} would be "this" as in: Why are you using background? Why not a regular ima

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-03 Thread Robert Hunt
Well, http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html isn't *that* hard to find or digest... - Original Message - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 10:38 PM Subject: RE: Reducing network traffic for rollover images Thanks for the filter idea Keith. I&#

RE: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-03 Thread Robert Hunt
Thanks for the filter idea Keith. I'll try it out! In the "...teach someone to fish and you feed them for a lifetime" spirit of things, where would one get more information (and hopefully as easily digestable as your post) about these header names/codes? Thanks again! -- RH

RE: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-03 Thread Keith Bottner
: Reducing network traffic for rollover images Is there a way (as in, response header or other HTTPServletResponse setting) that can persuade a browser to use a cached version of an GIF/JPG that's used for a rollover effect? I'd like to reduce the network traffic (and perhaps improve the

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I really think this is a case where we might be trying to hard to be innovative... Just do the typical "two versions of an image and some scripting" approach. Sure, slightly less maintainable, and yes, not quite as elegant code-wise, but it's a proven method that works across just about any br

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Yep, turns out this is a known issue with IE. I guess that's the reason CSS-based mouseovers aren't used much more often. You may want to take a different approach here... Consider doing what is probably the more common approach, which is to have two versions of your menu items, a normal state

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-02 Thread Robert Koberg
Robert Hunt wrote: To clarify: Watching the Tomcat access log and using permutations of CSS and the FrankZ/jscript-caching-strategy to achieve the rollover effects, I've found that the background image is requested: IExplore 6.0Netscape 7.2 -

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-02 Thread Robert Hunt
To clarify: Watching the Tomcat access log and using permutations of CSS and the FrankZ/jscript-caching-strategy to achieve the rollover effects, I've found that the background image is requested: IExplore 6.0Netscape 7.2 - -

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-02 Thread Robert Hunt
Message - From: Robert Hunt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images Frank, Thanks for the code snippet. However, I'm having a bit of trouble mapping your jscript to the CSS that currently creat

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Hunt
Frank, Thanks for the code snippet. However, I'm having a bit of trouble mapping your jscript to the CSS that currently creates the rollover/hover effect: a.glink:hover { background-image: url("../images/glblnav_selected.gif"); } I've tried several permutations for the anchor that has

Re: Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-01 Thread fzlists
The problem is actually in your scripting... The browser should be caching the image after the first view anyway, but the problem you are referring to is a result of not pre-loading the images. You do that by the following script when the page loads: img0 = new Image(); img0.src = "normal_versi

Reducing network traffic for rollover images

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Hunt
Is there a way (as in, response header or other HTTPServletResponse setting) that can persuade a browser to use a cached version of an GIF/JPG that's used for a rollover effect? I'd like to reduce the network traffic (and perhaps improve the browser's "response") from browsers that attempt to (r