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It should be noted that CSS sprites are in general not a new idea. It is a common practice used by most front end developers for the last 4-5 years or so. Howe
by arnorhs 15y ago
It should be noted that CSS sprites are in general not a new idea. It is a common practice used by most front end developers for the last 4-5 years or so.
However, they are often hand crafted, but there have been in existence many tools that try to do the same thing as "spritemapper" (google results, there may be better ones out there):
- http://spritegen.website-performance.org/ http://spritegen.website-performance.org/
- http://csssprites.com/ http://csssprites.com/
- http://css-sprit.es/ http://css-sprit.es/
- http://csssprites.org/ http://csssprites.org/
But most of them are shitty web interface tools and not very well suited for a scriptable developer environment.
This is why I like this implementation. It seems nice, I'll probably try it on my next project.
- gokhan 15y agoAnother "shitty web interface tool" for sprites: http://spriteme.org/ http://spriteme.org/ Runs as a bookmarklet.
- arnorhs 15y agoThis one I have actually used and is not so "shitty" - but still the same problem of deployment, but thanks for reminding me :)
- rimantas 15y ago> It is a common practice used by most front end developers I think you are too optimistic there. The practice is not new indeed (the famous http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites was published 7 years ago) but so far I don't see many sites using it or any other simple front-end performance improving techniques.