m14t/sots — Issue #325: Change hero fade method
Author: jjkaye
Created: 2011-12-09 22:10:56+00:00
State: open
Labels: Prio-Medium

At present we're modifying hero images ahead of a time with a transparent fade and then uploading them to SOTS.

This creates PNGs files in the order of 400k+, I think a simpler solution is to upload a 1px wide transparent PNG fade that sits over the image: http://cl.ly/CVKy

Then we can upload 60-70% quality JPG which will speed up load time and make swapping easier.

Thoughts?