[TYPO3-dev] New icons to the core or to t3skin?

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

On 2010-01-29 16:13:58 +0200, JoH asenau said:
> The goal is to get rid of any kind of "single icon" and switch to sprites
> completely.
> So you always get just ONE big sprite containing all the necessary Icons for
> the current combination of Skin(s) and Extensions. This can only be
> acchieved by generating this sprite and definitely not manually.

The goal sounds good as such. Now, do you imagine how complex CSS 
calculations for that gigantic sprites will be if every extension can 
add sprites to it? Do you know how many problems exists with overlaying 
one image over another on different hosts? Who will make sure it works 
everywhere?

While the idea is great, the approach reminds me a girl who decided to 
lose weight by eating nothing: it is extreme approach, which causes a 
lot of unnecessary complecations. As I described in another approach, 
instead you should have a logical groups of sprites that are easy to 
update and a simple API that can dynamically substitute an image from a 
default sprite with an image from the other sprite. There is no harm in 
loading two sprites. ut over cost of the implementation and maintanance 
is much less.

Think about it. Simplicity is good. It even was advocated by Jens 
Hoffman at one of developer's days. What happened to it? We go for 
challenges or for user experience? :)

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Dmitry Dulepov
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