Tei wrote: > Possibly-OFF-TOPIC-here > > > I see that ImageMagick can combine images in a single one. > > A single image mean a single hit to a Apache, so it only have to spawn once. > > On the clientside, a single image can draw multiple elements with some > ninja CSS stuff. ( background-position?).
People have taken to calling that the "CSS sprite" technique, I mentioned it as a possibility in my original post. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites I always thought the defining characteristic of a sprite was that it moved around the screen, not that it was copied from a grid, but there you have it. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
