On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, David Weitzman <dweitz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Reviving an old question here: is there anything in current or >> upcoming web specs that should give me hope that I will eventually see >> a day when sprites are either unnecessary at a protocol level or >> easily supported in <img> tags? > > The thread you're continuing answered that question. The Media > Fragments spec allows one to address a piece of a sprite sheet as an > image (for use in <img> and the like) when it is supported.
David: you might want to lobby the browsers through bug reports to start implementing support for it. :-) Cheers, Silvia.
