485184 - Consider using data_url() to convert images on the fly and reduce load

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, defect)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

We should consider using data_url() to convert images on our most-heavily visited pages on the fly. The main load we get is from Apache requests and isn't a bandwidth issue. This would help lower the amount of requests.

(This can be done for CSS includes as well, but at that point it's better just to include the CSS inline.)

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> (This can be done for CSS includes as well, but at that point it's better just
> to include the CSS inline.)

Can I saw "ew"?  I don't want to have to (remember to) change several files every time we change CSS.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

You don't have to. This does it at the PHP level so it's automatic. You put an <img> tag with a regular src attribute and it replaces it with a data: URI.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Given the current state of the Camino project, we won't be fixing these website bugs. Mass changing our Product Site bugs (search on "camino-website-bugs").

RESOLVED -> WONTFIX.