Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Burfitt" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; "Carl Peterson" 
<address@hidden>; "James Harkins" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Mailinglist lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:35 PM
>
>
> > Our server is provided on a goodwill basis, and so we would not want to 
> > use any scripting that might load it.
>
> > > Carl Perterson wrote:
> > > CSS gradients can be coded for fewer bytes and one less server request,
> > > with graceful degradation if CSS3 is not available on a browser.
>
> > TBH, this is a complete waste of time.  The image files are minuscule and 
> > affect loading time zilch.
>
>
> For every image link in an html page, a browser makes another http request 
> to get that image! You said you want to save server load?
>
> Phil.


Well, yes, as CPU load.  I remain of the view that this is not a good use of 
time - there are other things that will be of greater value for less effort. 
Remember, you'll not be doing this by editing HTML, but the texi2HTML 
control files.

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Phil Holmes