[thelist] Slicing images -- opinion?
Diane Soini
dianesoini at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 28 20:29:55 CDT 2004
On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 10:44 AM,
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:
> Subject: [thelist] Slicing images -- opinion?
>
> Having read it I just wondered what the community thought: How
> important do you think it is to save bytes in this way? I've never
> done it myself -- is it a bit old-fashioned these days?
It's not semantically "correct" to use tables for layout (which is what
you usually do with sliced up images). However, I work with people who
know very little about the web, but a lot more about photoshop and
dreamweaver, so what they end up doing is making a big image map with a
big image. Well, if that big image doesn't load or loads incompletely
(which has happened to me), your image map is pretty useless!
So what I've suggested to these folks is that it may be better to slice
the image up (and also make use of use the alt attribute on their area
tags!) so that it's not such an all-or-nothing situation.
Diane
>
> Cheers,
> James
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