- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 12:29:03 -0400
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, www-style@w3.org
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > No more so than any "new" image format, such as gradients (not that layered > image formats like Photoshop files, TIFF, etc., are particularly new). It's acceptable if gradients fall back to a solid color, if it affects a reasonably small percentage of users. I don't think there's any acceptable general fallback for image sprites. Showing the first image surely isn't very useful in general -- most sprites I've seen contain a number of unrelated images. The proposed archive-based solution has excellent fallback: a slight performance hit, nothing else. There's no reason you couldn't write a Photoshop plugin that lets you edit an archive file all at once, if you felt like it. If you cared about fallback, you'd then have to extract it in place when you upload the new version. Seems like no big deal.
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