- From: Alex Kaminski <activewidgets@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:44:46 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > Alex Kaminski wrote: >> >> And how this is different from keeping the set of separate images in a >> .zip package? > > One can stick the zip on disk and decode into memory one at a time as > needed. There's no memory cost at all for the small images you happen not > to be using on the current page. > You can do exactly the same with a composite image - keep it on disk, extract sprites into memory one at a time as needed, release memory taken by the composite image after extraction. -- Alex Kaminski http://www.activewidgets.com
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