Hi, I am having an issue with two css sprite menus in IE8. The menu's seem to react very slow. Is there a way to have the menus react normal/quicker??? Any other tips to speed up a website for IE8
Code? URL? Without seeing what you are doing it's hard to say what's causing your slowdowns... THOUGH - alpha .png or the use of opacity/filter can cause MASSIVE slowdowns, so those could be a cause... Just another reason I don't use alpha tranparency.
Is that saying you should NOT use css to create image opacity? - I've done so in a recent site after reading w3 tutorial but am now wondering if it would load faster with a transparent gif with opacity int he gif?
Any transparency can be slow to render, but what really causes problems is how large the image is. Ever visit a myspace page where the jackass that set it up put a transparent .gif behind his ENTIRE content area? Scrolling the page ends up damned near impossible, jerky to the point even on the fastest browsers on the OS they were meant to run on you get tearing from being able to see the redraw. You use it for a few small elements, it's usually fine and you won't notice. Alpha is slower than palettized, but palettized can see a hit too - you use it for a 16px wide edge, it's fine. Just don't wrap the whole page in it.