[TYPO3-english] accessible gmenu.. typoscript question

[Christopher Torgalson]

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.

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Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/