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0 pointsnirvdrum14y ago0 comments

I'll take the network hit over the CPU hit (and thus battery life). This page is constantly using about 45% of a core on my MBP in Firefox 9.

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dextorious14y ago

Sure, but the (real or imaginary) savings of this is not about your hit, is about the hit from the server point of view.

nirvdrumOP14y ago

I'm not sure I want someone working on a front-end component trying to optimize for a back-end process without realizing the full impact of these front-end changes. I'm assuming/hoping in this case it's just a "hey, this is something fun I did."

atarian14y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the combined size of an image and its complementary CSS file is less than the size of a 129kb CSS file with "CSS3 images", then don't you essentially lose the benefit of reducing server load?

dextorious14y ago

Sure. That's why I added the "imaginary" qualifier to the savings.

I just wanted to clarify that the savings the other commenters talk about were taken from the server point of you.

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dextorious14y ago

Sure, but the (real or imaginary) savings of this is not about your hit, is about the hit from the server point of view.

nirvdrumOP14y ago

atarian14y ago

dextorious14y ago

Sure. That's why I added the "imaginary" qualifier to the savings.

I just wanted to clarify that the savings the other commenters talk about were taken from the server point of you.

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