I'll will definetly checkout your extension and mail you if it is what I am looking for, regards, piet
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Christopher Torgalson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 18-Oct-08, at 11:48 PM, piet roorda wrote: > >> sleeping over the idea of this gtmenu, I have the following thoughts: >> >> what if we put the color and fonttype and size in the constants >> and why not generate only an 1px wide image and keep it repeating as >> we do in css; > > I don't understand what this question means :) I have heard the > repeating too small an image in backgrounds slows down rendering time > on the client side though. > >> ... or:l why not do as in CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death >> (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/) creating an entire css >> image in typoscript > > As I mentioned in the post you replied to: check my extension, it does > exactly this. I've even built one site that uses one GIFBUILDER > background image in each menu item to show the 'normal', mouseover, > and active conditions of that item (email me off list for the url if > you're interested). > >> OK so now we have three ways of doing it: >> >> 1. as suggested in accessible gtmenu >> 2. as in 1 but with in the constants. >> 3. creating in the typoscript the overall image used in css as in >> Image Slicing >> >> either route will be favoured based on our typoscript/css experience >> as an individual or as a team, so >> cost/effort will certainly play its role here. >> but shouldn't we take server load consequences into account too? >> Does anyone has any thoughts on this. > > Without having done a great deal of research, I'd say that in most > cases, server load shouldn't be a huge issue: GIFBUILDER images are > cached, and only regenerated when menu items etc change or the > relevant directory in /typo3temp is emptied. > > -- > Christopher Torgalson > http://www.typo3apprentice.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TYPO3-english mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english > _______________________________________________ TYPO3-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english
