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Who remembers sprite sheets? Does that give my age away? I did an optimization pass for a client once where I got rid of a ton of the sprites but didn't have t
by mattmanser 6mo ago
Who remembers sprite sheets? Does that give my age away?
I did an optimization pass for a client once where I got rid of a ton of the sprites but didn't have the energy to redo it all, so it just had huge sections that were blank.
Super snappy loading afterwards though.
- ricardobeat 6mo agoYes, good times! With http2/3 they don't really matter anymore though, you get similar benefits from request pipelining.
- chrisweekly 6mo agoSpriting is actually harmful for performance except in specific HTTP-1 scenarios.
- staticautomatic 6mo agoDoesn't McMaster Carr still use sprites? Is that like the one optimization they managed to get wrong?
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- flomo 6mo agoLooks like it, but isn't this site famous for being a "classic" storefront? Some CMSs would auto-generate sprites. If you are showing most of them, it's still a positive, I'd assume. And, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- paulddraper 6mo agoI indeed remember. HTTP 2+ (supported by every web browser) obviates sprite sheets. They were a useful hack, but still a hack.