Re: Image sprites use cases

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Brad Kemper<brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that I am holding my breath waiting for browsers to support multi-layer
> file formats or anything. But it does seem like layers (or frames in a gif
> animation file, perhaps) would be well suited for keeping strongly related
> and same-size resources like this together and easily accessible from CSS. I
> would love to see something like this in an <image> spec, if there was a
> multi-layer unencumbered format that compressed as well as, say, PNGs.

Of course, that's basically just using the layers as a packaging
format for the individual images, and is effectively the same thing as
just zipping them together, modulo some technical details.

~TJ