- From: Jonas Hartmann <j0n4s.h4rtm4nn@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 15:48:59 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Lee Kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Hello, what do you consider the hackish nature of css background image sprites? The often happening html markup's pollution with class attributes? On 2010-11-08, at 12:15, fantasai wrote: > On 11/08/2010 01:36 AM, Lee Kowalkowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> No idea if this is too late for the spec, I only just realised I >> wanted this. Hopefully it will pick up browser support regardless. >> >> My use case has arisen from a card game I'm currently writing. I >> decided to put all my playing cards into 1 graphic, x position defines >> rank, y position defines the suit, like a static CSS sprite. >> >> I give my playing card elements class names like "diamonds rank-10", I >> want to apply background-y depending on suit and background-x >> depending on rank, using _different_ class names. >> >> If I could do this, I'd only need to define 17 rules in my CSS file, >> instead of a rule for all 52 cards (I've already done this, I just >> think the 17 rules would look a lot better). > > All the use cases I've seen so far are improved hacks for image > sprites. Which is something I think should be addressed directly, > not by making such hacks easier. IMO. > > ~fantasai >
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