HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

Post by lucian1900 » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 8:23 AM UTC

jawr wrote: post #39

daliusd wrote: post #3

Very good proposal. There are more unicode symbols to choice from: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html Down arrow/triangle: ▼ It is not only matter of resolution but I personally like bigger fonts and have zoomed in HN so triangles look bad: http://i.imgur.com/fpA7N.png

I also zoom in to 125%, not sure if it's just me, but for a textual site the default font size seems too small. Maybe my eyes are just giving up. Out of curiosity, I was wondering why the triangle wasn't a CSS triangle.. wouldn't that be more efficient than a gif?

Post by masklinn » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 8:26 AM UTC

getsat wrote: post #20

masklinn wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The image is only loaded once and does not block anything (in fact it's loaded in parallel with — and the same size as — the orange Y logo at the top-left, and the tracking gif). Furthermore the images on YC have extremely low dynamicity and size, so there's little chance they'll be evicted from the browser's cache (short of a manual cache clear), so their 100 bytes will only be loaded once the first time ever you vi…

The image is only downloaded once, but each page you load re-requests it. If your account has enough karma to downvote posts, you're requesting two array gifs per page view. There's no Expires header being set, so your browser is not caching these images. A full roundtrip to the HN server to get back the "content hasn't changed" status code (304) is required for each.

Post by masklinn » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 8:34 AM UTC

garethadams wrote: post #33

masklinn wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The image is only loaded once and does not block anything (in fact it's loaded in parallel with — and the same size as — the orange Y logo at the top-left, and the tracking gif). Furthermore the images on YC have extremely low dynamicity and size, so there's little chance they'll be evicted from the browser's cache (short of a manual cache clear), so their 100 bytes will only be loaded once the first time ever you vi…

On the other other hand, it takes 83 bytes of HTML to represent the image tag which requests that 100 bytes of image. It only takes a couple of bytes to represent the Unicode character.

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 8:39 AM UTC

tomerv wrote: post #27

Am I the only one here against this proposal? I sometimes browse HN from my phone (outdated Nokia with Opera Mini), and I get a rectangle instead of an arrow.

Post by chris_wot » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 8:42 AM UTC