- From: Alex Kaminski <activewidgets@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:10:15 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > Actually, the proposal would be a package with a manifest, then you address > the images normally and they get loaded from the package in browsers that > support it (and one by one from the web server in ones that don't). That > way it's even backwards compatible and can be rolled out as soon as desired. > See http://limi.net/articles/resource-packages for a very initial proposal > draft; comments welcome. The package proposal is excellent and it covers very well the basic usage of image sprites (to reduce the number of http requests). However it still does not provide much help to the developers of web applications and component libraries who also need an efficient method to address many (possibly hundreds) of image fragments. Would it be right thing then to target the new CSS sprites technique to this advanced use case (UI components), possibly using something like image-region property, assuming that the basic sprites case is covered by the new packaging proposal? -- Alex Kaminski http://www.activewidgets.com
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