[RCD] reduce network requests by consolidating icon images

[Nathan Kinkade]

Of course, that's only something the RC devs could say, however, I do
have a few related comments.  The main reason I implemented CSS sprites
was that I knew I was soon going to be living in a location with a
relatively slow Internet connection (256kbps) and with high latency.  I
knew RC was a bit heavy on requests and page size, so I was proactively
trying to make RC better equiped for a slow, high latency connction.

Well, I've been here now for over a month and discovered very quickly
that RoundCube is quite literally unusable over a link of that speed,
even with CSS sprites and a custom theme that ditches a good number of
images for CSS buttons.  I have to use Google Apps for my work, and even
the javascript/ajax interface of Gmail is vastly more usable than
RoundCube over this connection.  I've reverted to using Mutt and
offlineimap, which has restored sanity to my email experience.  However,
I like what RC is doing and may use it again from time to time when I
get back to a faster Internet connection.

Nathan

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:12:11PM +0200, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> > http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=e099a5847df411a18a5f16ad59d64b5203e402be
> 
> are there any plans for merging the css sprites changes back into rc?
> 
> cheers,
> raoul
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