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Is anyone else but me worried about the legibility of the CSS with Data URIs? I mean, I can see how it can be useful, but I think the code is more readable wit
by benbeltran 16y ago
Is anyone else but me worried about the legibility of the CSS with Data URIs? I mean, I can see how it can be useful, but I think the code is more readable with "spritesheet.png" than with:
iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAABGdBTUEAALGP
C/xhBQAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9YGARc5KB0XV+IA
AAAddEVYdENvbW1lbnQAQ3JlYXRlZCB3aXRoIFRoZSBHSU1Q72QlbgAAAF1J
REFUGNO9zL0NglAAxPEfdLTs4BZM4DIO4C7OwQg2JoQ9LE1exdlYvBBeZ7jq
ch9//q1uH4TLzw4d6+ErXMMcXuHWxId3KOETnnXXV6MJpcq2MLaI97CER3N0
vr4MkhoXe0rZigAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==
Now if only there was a way to define a data URI in a similar manner to @font-face. Maybe @data-object or something like that.
- chc 16y agoI certainly wouldn't write it inline in the CSS. I'd use a preprocessor to keep the style itself readable and have the base64 inserted for the deployment version. I personally like Sass, but for this purpose CPP or a knocked-together Ruby script would be just as good.