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Putting these small images together into one file is a good way to speed up the load times of the page. However, I think the the CSS file would have been small
by phoboslab 16y ago
Putting these small images together into one file is a good way to speed up the load times of the page.
However, I think the the CSS file would have been smaller with the icons as PNGs in a data URI or by using a single CSS-Sprite. You wouldn't be able to scale the icons, though.
- nikeshhayaran 16y agoCSS-Sprite is one way to speed up the load time but even though this css file is still much smaller than the size of images used in CSS-Sprite. And on the other hand the programmer could change icon property(like gradient , radius etc) very easily.