Comments on: Opera.com – Refreshed Home Page

By: Foo

Foo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:07:03 +0000

It is completely relevant, this is the new design we are talking about.
How can you not notice the eyesore that is the “gradient” in the background, or the greenish blotches in the shadow?
It stands out like frikkin’ Mt. Everest!

By: Foo

Foo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:01 +0000

That’s true, I had completely forgotten about that. 1px width just appears “simpler” I guess.
If they would use sprites they could even get away with ~408px in width, meaning the browser would only have to stitch together 2 or 3 gradients :D

By: Slack

Slack — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:54:39 +0000

Wow, all this whining over something completely irrelevant? I didn’t even notice (still don’t), and yes someone has to find some minor issue to whine about.

Geez.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:55:22 +0000

youre welcome :)

it is a bit ancient knowledge, because most modern webdevs dont even remember what 486 is, and for them p4 is ‘old’ :)

there is a lot of similar tricks, that are not relevant to someone with opera/safari/firefox and core2duo cpu, but they can be usefull when designing mobile-only sites.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:45:06 +0000

Really? Didn’t knew that, thanks for the tip!

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:40:07 +0000

1px wide images ISN’T the best way to do backgrounds. in fact it is better to use about 8-16px wide, and in case of ‘non-gradient’ background even greater

reason? slow computers render 1000*1px images much more slowly than 20*50px images. on slow computers and with certain browsers it is a HUGE difference.

but yes, it could heve been done better than that what opera did

By: Foo

Foo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:06:50 +0000

Yea, that’s what I meant by two images :)
Oh well, there’s still time for them to fix it, hopefully they will.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:44:05 +0000

You are right on that, they also seem to use graphics with background already painted (http://www.opera.com/bitmaps/home/campaign/0906unite/unite.jpg) instead of 1px width bg repeat + placing red logo on it.

By: Foo

Foo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:06:30 +0000

Horrible jpeg compression deluxe. They would have been better of with two png images or a single sprited png if they want to speed things up a tiny bit.