- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:15:49 +0200
- To: "Alex Kaminski" <activewidgets@gmail.com>, "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:56:06 +0200, Alex Kaminski <activewidgets@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Brad Kemper<brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> It's acceptable if gradients fall back to a solid color, if it affects >>> a reasonably small percentage of users. I don't think there's any >>> acceptable general fallback for image sprites. Showing the first >>> image surely isn't very useful in general -- most sprites I've seen >>> contain a number of unrelated images. >> >> Most I've used have been related images, such as the different states >> of a >> button, tab, icon, etc. > > +1. From my experience the majority of sprites contain different states > of the same component. The two examples mentioned in the first mail of this thread were <input type="checkbox"> rewritten as a styled div and a toolbar of icons (I've seen the latter on e.g. Yahoo). I don't see how any of those would be useful with fallback to a single image. -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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