[Building Sakai] sprited portal

[Matthew Jones]

Anything committed to trunk doesn't need explicit TCC approval. The TCC can
provide advice or direction but doesn't need to be consulted on every issue.

This came up last month on the dev list.
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2013-February/021176.html
and
it looks like Gonzalo decided to try it out. It's possible that the
negatives of this change mentioned may outweigh the positives so it would
be worth reverting. There shouldn't be anything wrong with reverting any
change that doesn't improve the code.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm a bit concerned about local skins and needing to change the icons.
> Right now its a simple matter of dropping in a new icon and adjusting the
> CSS. With this sprite change, you'd either need to change the sprite or
> change the CSS to refer to a standalone image, thus adding back in the HTTP
> requests.
>
> And browsers cache the images anyway, so wouldn't the HTTP requests be
> eliminated anyway (except for first page load)? Maybe we should put in more
> aggressive cache settings if that is an issue.
>
> Also, did this change go through the TCC? IMO this is a fairly major
> change that impacts everyone with a custom skin.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>wrote:
>
>> Yea this is a nice effort but, but I'm not too sure reducing these http
>> requests will really reduce overall http requests? I'm sure we'll be able
>> to write something else to utilize those freed up http requests!
>>
>> Just the same way as being more energy efficient doesn't reduce overall
>> energy consumption. ;) Just lets us get more cooler and bigger gadgets!
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Super cool.  You may have just saved the world a few billion HTTP
>>> requests over the next few years!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Gonzalo Silverio <gsilver at umich.edu>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Following suggestions I have made all the portal icons into one sprite
>>>> for all skins (SAK-23463<https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23463>).
>>>>  Still a bit more to do.
>>>>
>>>> I just though I would let people know - if you notice weirdnesses clear
>>>> your cache.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> - Gonzalo
>>>>
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