On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 10:12 -0700, David Weitzman wrote: > There are various approaches to using image sprites with HTML and CSS, > but at the end of the day they are all essentially hacks. A solution > that would be simpler than any existing approach would be to introduce > new attributes for <img> to specify x and y offsets and clipping on > images. With that you would get simpler markup for sprites and better > accessibility. > > One downside of this approach is that with background image sprites > you can have a CSS class that abstracts away the name of the sprite > image. With <img> tags you would have to specify the URL and > height/width individually on every sprited image. > > Thoughts? > > - David
It does seem like a good idea, because it does make sure that the sprites are accessible, which they really aren't at the moment. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk