On 9/24/09 1:40 PM, Jared Williams wrote: > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org >> [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of >> Trevor Parscal >> Sent: 24 September 2009 19:38 >> To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] JS2 design (was Re: Working towards >> branchingMediaWiki 1.16) >> >> On 9/24/09 9:31 AM, Jared Williams wrote: >> >>>>> * Automatically create CSS sprites? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> That would be neat, but perhaps a bit tricky. >>>> >>>> >>> Just trying to think how it'd work. >>> >>> Given a CSS selector, and an image, should be able to construct a >>> stylesheet which sets the background property of the css >>> >> rules and an >> >>> single image. >>> >>> (#toolbar-copy, toolbar-copy.png) >>> (#toolbar-copy:hover, toolbar-copy-hover.png) >>> >>> And the generated stylesheet would get concatenated with other >>> stylesheets. >>> >>> > >> Again, I like sprites allot! But in reality, they are an >> optimization technique that needs careful attention and can >> cause problems if done improperly. >> > Providing CSS sprite support would be (I guess) just a service for > modules/extensions to use, just as a part of the proposed client > resource manager(?). So the mediawiki or an extension can put in a > request for a some stylesheet or javascript be linked to, it could > also request for images possibly via CSS sprites. > > So don't see how it should cause a problem. > > Jared > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > So you are saying that you believe a generic set of sprite-generation utilities are going to be able to completely overcome the issues I identified and be a better use of time (to design, develop and use) than just creating and using sprites manually?
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