Spped Improvement for final version

As a speed imrovement, I think the images used for the buttons should use CSS positioning and one image to make it all much faster. For example, this was done for HTMLArea (when forked to Xinha):

http://xinha.python-hosting.com/wiki/LargeImage

Thu, 05/26/2005 - 17:31

bnoblet

Joined: 29/11/2006

Posts: 179

RE: Spped Improvement for final version

This is a major change that should not be made between an FC and final release.

It will also render all existing skins unusable.

It loads pretty fast after the images are cached the first time, so personally I don't think it's worth it at this stage (maybe in a future version)

Thu, 05/26/2005 - 18:19

deskpro

Joined: 08/12/2004

Posts: 24

RE: Spped Improvement for final version

I think it would be a very good idea to do this as an option.

Fri, 05/27/2005 - 01:53

fredck

Joined: 19/01/2007

Posts: 898

RE: Speed Improvement for final version

Hello Steven,

I've been think a lot about it since version RC3. I'm ready to implement it, but I don't want to make such a big change in the editor for the final version (the next one).

After that we could think about it. It would be nice.

Thanks for your advice,
FredCK

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Tue, 05/31/2005 - 16:28

sroussey

Joined: 28/06/2005

Posts: 17

RE: Speed Improvement for final version

By the way, this would not make all previous skins unusable. The way HTMLArea/Xinha did it was backward compatible. It would work either way. I think that would be an good approach for FCKEditor too.

Tue, 05/31/2005 - 17:08

mattrobertson

Joined: 06/05/2005

Posts: 78

RE: Spped Improvement for final version

Yeah it sounds like a great idea BUT its too late in the dev cycle I think. I just spent a year working on a new release of my own software. I got some great ideas one month before rollout and they stayed on the shelf. At some point you gotta cut stuff off.

Fri, 06/03/2005 - 13:44

sroussey

Joined: 28/06/2005

Posts: 17

RE: Spped Improvement for final version

I agree. But it is singular feature that would have a great impact on the speed of the editor loading and I would love to see as soon as possible. That said, I wouldn't work on it until 2.0 Final is already out. Something for fun for 2.0.1...