On: Jon Rohan · Creating Triangles in CSS

[alexandros]

Awesome. I wonder if PG can use this to replace the upvote/downvote arrows that crack so badly under zoom and add unnecessary HTTP requests to boot.

[axod → alexandros]

it'd be simple enough just to use data: urls for those.

uparrow =

  data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKALMJANPT06
  enp%2Fb29r%2B%2Fv52dnfn5%2Bbq6usLCwpqamv%2F%
  2F%2FwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAkALAAA
  AAAKAAoAAAQcMMlJq712GIzQDV1QFV0nUETZTYDaAdIhz3ISAQA7

It is fairly stupid that HN doesn't use an expires header to cache the upmod/downmod arrows, so everyone requests them every time the visit.

[bobds → axod]

It's quite often that the arrow images and css styles timeout for me. I think we would all appreciate some more caching, especially the server.

[jacobbijani → alexandros]

They're blurry at 100%