"data:" URLs are pretty good for this too, no web request needed. See RFC2397. I've been using these a bit lately for little icons and such, I think its a cle

"data:" URLs are pretty good for this too, no web request needed. See RFC2397. I've been using these a bit lately for little icons and such, I think its a cleaner approach than spriting in a lot of cases. I put a little script to generate data URLs up at http://nick.zoic.org/art/etc/make-data-url.html http://nick.zoic.org/art/etc/make-data-url.html How good is cross-platform Unicode support these days? I do like the idea of just using characters which look like icons, even if it does feel a bit like writing MS-DOS TUIs with box-drawing characters :-).