Re: LilyPond Website Work

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Carl Peterson
>
>> I want to eventually eliminate any image file that does not
>> contribute to content.
>> The first victim of this will be the gradient images used for the
>> header and navigation backgrounds.
>> CSS gradients can be coded for fewer bytes and one less server request,
>> with graceful degradation if CSS3 is not available on a browser.
>
> TBH, this is a complete waste of time.  The image files are minuscule
> and affect loading time zilch.

They don't affect the network capacity significantly, but if they are
fetched via a different TCP connection on a congested network, they may
at times arrive later than other content.  So for incrementally
rendering browsers, this may occasionally improve flashing of the page
updates.

And "graceful degradation" is nice for text browsers.

-- 
David Kastrup