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By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:04:00 +0000

I have tried to replace the “BAD” transparent.gif technique, unsuccesfully. The background image doesn't appear at all. Tested on chrome and FF… what am I missing? I'd love to suppress those extra HTTP requests to transparent.gif….

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By: originalgeek

originalgeek — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:21:27 +0000

One benefit is that there are fewer HTTP requests needed to fetch the image. Each HTTP request fires cookies up to the web server, which is chewing up the slow side of the user's bandwidth. Bandwidth issues aside, sprites don't suffer from rollover lag because all states of the button are already loaded.

By: Armitage

Armitage — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:08:59 +0000

I understand the reasoning behind the semantic markup and using a background and hiding your html text. But, I don't see how having a single image for several elements is useful. Why spend the effort to postion the map for each element. Is it simply to lower the number of http GET's? Why not slice them up? Can someone explain that?

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:09:44 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:43:08 +0000

Another option for existing sites is to use something like SpriteMe: http://spriteme.org/ . It will take your existing images and figure out which ones can be sprited and generate the sprite for you. Pretty slick!

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uberVU - social comments — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:03:21 +0000

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This post was mentioned on Hackernews by TheThomas: The transparent spacer image hack seems horribly antiquated to me. I’m surprised anyone still does it that way….

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