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Question Css sprite for emotions icons.
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14 years 8 months ago - 14 years 8 months ago #101396
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Replied by sozzled on topic Re: Css sprite for emotions icons.
Using Google
Page Speed Online
analysis tool on your site shows
So you have to ask yourself, what's the benefit in trying to eke a few extra milliseconds improvement out of an otherwise reasonable website like the one you have?
The main point that I think we should recognise in response to this question is that emoticons are not the most important part of a forum. Most forum users don't user them. We've received a lot of requests from users to give them the means to display hundreds of emoticons/smileys (see Button show more smiles in Kunena 1.6 as one example) when, in fact, we know that people will only use one or two of them.
The simple answer to the question is that turning a dozen or more smileys into one image (to reduce page load time), and have the separate images rendered as CSS sprites, is not an easy ask. You have to modify the whole Smiley Management feature and, in effect, restructure Kunena to deal with CSS sprites instead of loading separate images for each emoticon. The Law of Diminishing Returns (and all that) means that the effort involved in achieving a few milliseconds improvement, or appeasing the Google Page Speed Online analysis tool seems make this idea economically unjustifiable. I wouldn't do this if I was in your position.
Smiley management isn't the best feature that exists in Kunena. I'm sure that it will be looked into sometime in the future.
. The same information appears on these websites, too:Medium priority. These suggestions may represent smaller wins or involve much more work to implement. You should address these items next:
Combine images into CSS sprites,Serve scaled images
- en.wikipedia.org/
- www.yahoo.com/
- www.imdb.com/
- www.forum-software.org/forum-comparator/...-groups-vs-vbulletin
- www.istockphoto.com/
So you have to ask yourself, what's the benefit in trying to eke a few extra milliseconds improvement out of an otherwise reasonable website like the one you have?
The main point that I think we should recognise in response to this question is that emoticons are not the most important part of a forum. Most forum users don't user them. We've received a lot of requests from users to give them the means to display hundreds of emoticons/smileys (see Button show more smiles in Kunena 1.6 as one example) when, in fact, we know that people will only use one or two of them.
The simple answer to the question is that turning a dozen or more smileys into one image (to reduce page load time), and have the separate images rendered as CSS sprites, is not an easy ask. You have to modify the whole Smiley Management feature and, in effect, restructure Kunena to deal with CSS sprites instead of loading separate images for each emoticon. The Law of Diminishing Returns (and all that) means that the effort involved in achieving a few milliseconds improvement, or appeasing the Google Page Speed Online analysis tool seems make this idea economically unjustifiable. I wouldn't do this if I was in your position.
Smiley management isn't the best feature that exists in Kunena. I'm sure that it will be looked into sometime in the future.
Blue Eagle vs. Crypsis reference guide
Read my blog and
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