Re: Image-dislay status media query for reducing reflows -was Re: FAQ about reasons behind CSS

I'm not sure creating extra properties to avoid re-flows is a good  
use of time. Reflows are here to stay. While images may be a major  
culprit, they're not the biggest. Scripting and IFRAME/OBJECTs are.  
In most of the pages I visit, Google AdSense and the "Shoot the  
monkey" flash ads are the largest reflow culprits. Also, the  
proliferation of AJAX will cause a lot more reflows in page display,  
as different parts of documents will be loaded dynamically after the  
page has already been drawn. I think this is one issue where the  
market has spoken: users have begun to expect and deal with reflowing  
pages, and creating more CSS bloat will not solve it.

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