[TYPO3-core] RFC #14490: New Backend design

[Steffen Gebert]

Am 27.05.2010, 09:09 Uhr, schrieb Franz Koch  
<typo3.RemoveForMessage at elements-net.de>:

>> Why use data uris, gradients and other CSS3 stuff at all when we need to
>> define the fallback solution for IE anyway? Especially data uris are
>> extremely ugly IMHO, additionally for gradients we need to use
>> non-standard browser specific notations (so we have to actively manage 4
>> CSS commands for 1 gradient [webkit, mozilla, CSS3 default, background
>> image for IE]). I think that's overhead that is not necessary.
>
> I think they try to reduce the total requests - but CSS sprites should  
> already give a huge benefit. And if background-gradients are also merged  
> into one sprite background file (as far as possible for horz. repeating  
> gradients with limited height) it should be sufficient.

I think this can't be possible, as gradient backgrounds usually need  
repeat-x and would need clip (which I think is also one of the evil modern  
techniques) to not show up the next gradient, when the height of the box  
is very high.

Steffen