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Originally Posted by djeglin
its not the size of the image thats the only problem though... its the fact that for each image you're actually hitting the server again... each http request comes with a request/response header, and it takes the server some time to locate the file and serve it. If you're dealing with enterprise scale sites (Which you are obviously not) then this can make a big difference to load times when you have millions of page views per day.
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You are right, nothing comes at no cost, but what I want to say is, that it is not
that bad as you say, because we are talking about a few percents. The company will then buy an additional server and they are done.
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Originally Posted by djeglin
Also, with your estimation that 99.9% of browsers will not have a problem with it, try thinking about what will happen if someone views the page CSS-naked. Yes, text-only browsers such as Lynx will ignore the images, but people with disabilities who strip out the css to make things more readable for them will still see the images, with no reason for them to need them. They will become a needless distraction. Also, to be properly compliant, all images need an alt tag - alt tagging your corner images will probably take as much markup as the nifty corners technique.
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No, that is not correct. The images are background-images defined in the CSS. So if the browser removes the CSS the images are also gone. alt-tags are not needed, if the images are defined as background-images
I have also read that people with disabilities prefer websites with frames, because they give the website a better structure (menu - content). So should we use frames for all of our websites?
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Originally Posted by djeglin
And finally, what about flexibility and maintainability? Using images, if you want to change the colour scheme of the site, you would need to create new corner images. Using a CSS technique, you simply need to change a couple of values in a CSS file that you would be modifying anyway.
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Creating new corners takes less than 10 minutes. How often will you change your layout?
I do not want to say that using images for the layout is perfect, I say that it is
okay and cannot understand why so many people do not like it.