01 Feb 2009
Admittedly, I’ve never worked on a website that required so much load optimization that all graphics & UI elements needed to be combined into a single image file. An interesting technique nonetheless.
Also read Website Optimization’s for implementation methods.
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I never really thought about this. A similar technique has been used for years in skinning of applications and 3D models, but using CSS to cut apart a single image is a pretty good idea.
If we ever come up with something more efficient than plain HTTP for loading external data (a unique connection per file is really inefficient on a large scale) things like this won’t be needed anymore, but since we’re not there yet it’s a cool way of optimizing.