Hi,

I mean images used in components.

For example open Tree component http://showcase.richfaces.org/richfaces/component-sample.jsf?demo=tree&skin=blueSky in showcase and open also firebug or another development tool. Switch to Net/Images tab and refresh page. You can see there images used for this single RF component like, "+", "-", "folder", each of these image has to be downloaded by separate browser thread.

For example when you have page where you use all RF component you can count maybe 15-20 images which has to be downloaded or as for modify each time that page is loaded.

When network connection has limitation and number of thread should be reduce due to long response time, each image on page can take several seconds of loading of page.

I know what you propose, increate number of browser threads, but it will be great if similar to JS and CSS which has been join together as packed.js and packed.css we can have something similar for images.

I found using CSS sprites with images in Primefaces framework, where they have one image file for all components images.