Using spriteme can improve your website view
performance (Spriteme and sprites a quick look)
I've recently come across around
SpriteMe a project which explains an
approach in web development towards picture showing speed up with
CSS.
The whole idea behind spriteme that it allows you to have a large
image with a number of images and you can use some javascript to
display the necessary image element part of the complete many
elements image.
Using this kind of approach in displaying images in a website can
save you the many dubious requests to the webserver and therefore
could improve the website general access time.
The whole concept is very intesting so I suggest check it out by
yourself.
Starting with sprime is a piece of cake as the guys of
sprime.org has prepared a special
javascript bookmark button which through which the user is able to
prepare some image sprites.
A very good profound article on what is the Sprites and therein
implementation called
CSS Sprites: What They Are,
Why They're Cool, and How To Use Them can be red here
Another good place to visit if you want to further read about
Sprime and
Sprites is
the Css Sprites website
The whole concept behind sprime is based on an oldschool computer
graphics technology called
Read
further about the sprite technology more in wikipedia
The css sprites are also well documented in
w3cschools.com
website so take a quick look therein as well.
As I'm a into computing for quite some time I even remeber that
there was times that this kind of technology was a complete hype,
even if I'm my memory is correct the great
Heroes
of Might and Magic II 's game graphic system was based around
the sprite technology.
BTW Heroes of Might and Magic II is in the head in my best strategy
game list.
Sprites was also heavily used earlier in games industry especially
in console games for it's numerous privileges.
I haven't yet myself implemented the
spritesme CSS
technology in my website but I'm considering doing so ASAP I
have some few hours time.
Not everything is perfect with spritesme though it can have a major
impact on a website performance whenever implemented, there are
still many risks as many browsers doesn't render the CSS in a
proper way, not to mention that there are many people who use text
mode browsers as lynx/links or some browser extensions that would
not play well with CSS.
In the meantime I'll be glad to get some feedback of users who has
experience with spritesme in web dev.