informit.com — CSS sprites allow you to create a single file that contains all the images laid out in a grid, requiring only a single image and only a single server call. Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to tame your Web site graphics using CSS sprites to consolidate images into a single file.
Mar 9, 2006 View in Crawl 4
lifeloggerMar 10, 2006
I have been using this for a very long while now. So this is not really that new, to be honest.
elxxMar 10, 2006
That's a very interesting use for sprites. It works pretty well, too.
thepdwMar 10, 2006
"Interweb"... I seriously hope that your use of that word is a joke :-p The last person I heard seriously use that word was over 60 years old!
phoenyxMar 10, 2006
Check out my previous comment
chrism1128Mar 10, 2006
Hey "Old News"I hear that people knew how to add and subtract a couple thousand years ago. I guess it's just plain stupid for elementary schools to hire math teachers now.We know, you're smart and bleeding edge, can the rest of the mortals learn something without your derision?
jupoMar 11, 2006
This is a very creative technique. We've been doing this on a smaller scale with navigation for quite a while. I think this would decrease load time on documents with a large number of images due to the overhead of each separate request. Comment pages on digg take forever to load over dial-up due to the large number of individual requests made.
theloniousOct 7, 2006
Just as an update, the arrow that moved around a compass type dial (if you saw that) wasn't very friendly with some browsers (other than Safari, FF on WinXP, Opera and IE). Now it's just a blue arrow on a single horizontal slide, in 360 degree frames.
senywdFeb 24, 2009
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