Reviving an old question here: is there anything in current or upcoming web specs that should give me hope that I will eventually see a day when sprites are either unnecessary at a protocol level or easily supported in <img> tags?
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> It would, however, be good to have an indication where HTML would like to >> see it going. Would it be better for a media fragment URI for images such as >> http://example.com/picture.png#xywh=160,120,320,240 to display the full >> image with the rectangle somehow highlighted (as is the case with fragment >> URIs to HTML pages), or would it be better to actually just display the >> specified region and hide the rest of the image (i.e. create a sprite)? What >> makes the most sense for images? > > The CSS Image Values Module ( http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#url > ) is currently recommending Media Fragments as a way to sprite out a > portion of a resource. We have a note that we're expecting a spec to > reference at some point. > > ~TJ
