Comments on: Navigation Bars Part 3 – Advanced Backgrounds http://stephenmcintyre.net/blog/navigation-bars-part-3-advanced-backgrounds/ Young Scottish Web Designer Fri, 28 May 2010 19:48:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen McIntyre http://stephenmcintyre.net/blog/navigation-bars-part-3-advanced-backgrounds/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Stephen McIntyre Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:12:34 +0000 http://stephenmcintyre.net/?p=71#comment-62 Ah interesting. I hadn't thought about that but it does make sense. Suppose it's down to how much bandwidth those few extra KBs will actually affect your servers, which for smaller sites isn't much and you would be better off helping with user experience. Thanks Eric. Ah interesting. I hadn’t thought about that but it does make sense.

Suppose it’s down to how much bandwidth those few extra KBs will actually affect your servers, which for smaller sites isn’t much and you would be better off helping with user experience.

Thanks Eric.

]]> By: Eric http://stephenmcintyre.net/blog/navigation-bars-part-3-advanced-backgrounds/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Eric Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:58:58 +0000 http://stephenmcintyre.net/?p=71#comment-61 I get trying to make the filesize as small as possible, but a 1px image has to be blitted 144 times(according to your example) by the renderer. This can cause slowness - not in loading the image, but in actual rendering and browser responsiveness - especially when scrolling a page. It's much better to increase the image width to 10~20px. I get trying to make the filesize as small as possible, but a 1px image has to be blitted 144 times(according to your example) by the renderer.

This can cause slowness – not in loading the image, but in actual rendering and browser responsiveness – especially when scrolling a page. It’s much better to increase the image width to 10~20px.

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