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Nathan Broaddus
5,875 PointsWhy are the badges so huge?
This question doesn't really matter. But I was doing some random AJAX requests on my treehouse page: teamtreehouse.com/name.json
and I used ajax to respond with the png treehouse badges. Some of these badges are HUGE. For example one was 1250 x 1363.
I just finished a lesson on optimizing webpages, and I wondered if there was a reason for making the badges so large on treehouse (instead of making them as small as possible).
1 Answer
Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 PointsWell I can't speak for Treehouse since I didn't create their webpage, but basically you need to conscider the scalability of the image itself. If you make the images as small as possible then you can't expand the image to fit larger screens without it getting all pixelated and loosing quality. A large image size can be easily downsized and scaled to fit smaller screens, however, a small image (lets say a 64 x 64 img) can't scale well to fit a design that may want those images to be 100 x 100. So basically they may have large images, but scale them to smaller sizes using css, javascript, svg, or otherwise.
Hopefully that helps answer your question....or maybe I am all wrong and an actual Treehouse developer will let you know :)
Nathan Broaddus
5,875 PointsNathan Broaddus
5,875 Pointsthanks for the response.