[TYPO3-english] accessible gmenu.. typoscript question

[piet roorda]

have a look at:
http://www.springfieldchamber.com/

the menu looks good but has to be loaded on every page, the amount of
time it takes
to load is what I want to avoid
regards,
piet

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:05 PM, piet roorda <pietroorda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> <bedlamhotel at gmail.com> 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/
>>
>>
>>
>>
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