I believe mobile safari does download the images. Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 10, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Rick Lecoat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all; > > With the current interest in mobile-first responsive design, I have a > question that I’ve been unable to fully answer. Here’s the scenario: > > Assuming that I use the same page for both desktop and mobile (ie. NOT a > separate mobile site or subdomain) then I will most likely streamline the > mobile experience by having some sections of the page initially hidden using > display: none. (User can click/tap to reveal that section as required). > > My question then, pertains to minimising bandwidth requirements, and it is > this: if an element has a background image -- eg. background-image: > url(/myImage.png); -- and *also* has display: none applied, does the browser > download that image or not? > > (Obviously the most relevant browsers for this question are the mobile > browsers). > > I couldn’t see anything in the spec > (http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-CSS2-20110607/) to clarify this, so can anyone > here shed any light on the matter? > Thanks. > > -- > Rick Lecoat > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [[email protected]] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
