[TYPO3-hci] <IMG> vs CSS-backgrounds

[Georg Ringer]

Hi,

Feodor Rykhtik wrote:
> I would like to propose to make BE-icons in TYPO3 joined in one image 
> file - to use it like a CSS-Background for each element.

IMO this makes sense for background-images only!

> It's not a secret, what for each image Web-browser will make separated 
> request, so when we have 20-30 types of images/per page, it could take 
> some time to load all of them.

Out of this reason you should enable the .htaccess to get the expire 
headers.

IMO it makes no sense to put all the icons (new, edit, delete,...) into 
one image because this would mean we would need to switch all <img 
src="new.gif" /> into <span class="btn" id="new">new</span> and add 
something like
#id { whatever you need}

This would mean a massive change in many many files!

Georg