Fwd: Re: [horde] new icons

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:


> That reminds me, we already do the some theme check in Horde::img() anyway,
> an additional array lookup shouldn't hurt much. But these arrays might get
> really big and consume lots of memory if a theme replaces many/all icons.

Yeah, I'm concerned about maintainability there, too. No real need for 
big maps
if we can just use pngs consistently.

>> as 8-bit indexed PNG can be a drop-in replacement for GIFs _without_ any
>> AlphaGizmoMicrosoftCall/Script (there's only a on/off transparency, but
>> that's what we have with GIF anyway), a naming convention could be used
>> for truecolor alpha PNG images; prefixing images with "a_", like in
>> "a_img.png" might be used to wakeup the IE-scripting calls in img();
>
> That's an interesting idea.

Something like that sounds possible, yeah.

Also, this reminds me that I ran across an alternate IE-png solution that uses
CSS - here's one variant:
http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html that matches all img
tags, and here's one that uses CSS:
http://www.daltonlp.com/daltonlp.cgi?item_type=1&item_id=217 but I think the
fatal flaw there is the css filter: requires you to define the src= in the
filter.

Dunno.

-chuck

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