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From: jeff on 12 Feb 2010 20:15
Jason Carlton wrote:
> On Feb 12, 6:53 am, Andy Dingley <ding...(a)codesmiths.com> wrote:
>> On 12 Feb, 09:46, Jason Carlton <jwcarl...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I can't pretend to understand either, honestly. If I understand the
>>> purpose correctly, though, you would take a page with a lot of small
>>> images (like emoticons), and instead of using 50 separate images, you
>>> would compile them into a single large image. The purpose is to
>>> decrease the number of concurrent connections, which (allegedly) slow
>>> down the load time.
>> Sounds like obsolete voodoo code from the '90s. Don't.
>>
>> (From curiosity though, where did you discover this?)
>
> My server was running slow recently with a high number of Apache
> processes, and one of the theories was to cut down on the number of
> HTTP-Requests. That's when someone suggested CSS sprites.
>
> A simple search for "css sprites" comes up with the same basic code
> structure:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=css+sprites
>
> This one seems to explain the code side of it better:
>
> http://www.css-tricks.com/css-sprites/

Seems like a plan for a large number of similar images. I wonder how
much can be achieved by tinkering with cache control. An Apache group
may be more helpful.

Irregardless, shifting background images is interesting, I need to
make a magnifier, and it is one way to do it.

Jeff
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