On 09/27/2013 02:24 PM, Anselm Hannemann wrote: > Brendan, Jukka, please have a look at this thread where your topic has > been discussed already: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Sep/thread.html#msg137 (in > particular: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Sep/0145.html +following). In case anyone else is wondering, the reason using CSS is a bad idea is that it would put browsers in a tricky situation where they'd need to either: * Wait for all CSS to be downloaded and parsed before starting image downloads, making page loads slower. * Pre-fetch images while downloading and parsing CSS, potentially wasting bandwidth.Received on Friday, 27 September 2013 20:57:41 UTC
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