On 9/10/11 5:42 AM, Rick Lecoat 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:
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?
--
Rick Lecoat
I am not able to find the article that documents this at the moment but
as I recall mobile browsers [all of them] do download everything
including whatever has display:none; applied. Consequently,
"mobile-ready" desktop sites with heavy image and/or slow-load CSS3
dependency currently face grave speed issues on handsets.
Best,
~d
/aside
With a little luck this /mobile issue/ will be resolved sometime in the
not too distant future...
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