> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Trevor Parscal
> Sent: 24 September 2009 19:38
> To: [email protected]
> 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


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