/tags/sprites/ Recent bookmarks tagged #sprites Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:59 +0000 http://blog.vlad1.com/2009/06/22/to-sprite-or-not-to-sprite "The biggest problem with CSS sprites is memory usage. Unless the sprite image is carefully constructed, you end up with incredible amounts of wasted space. My favourite example is from WHIT TV's web site, where this image is used as a sprite. Note that this is a 1299x15,000 PNG. It compresses quite well — the actual download size is around 26K — but browsers don't render compressed image data. When this image is downloaded and decompressed, it will use almost 75MB in memory (1299 * 15000 * 4)."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #browsers #css #optimization #sprites #webdev</p> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:38:31 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12364 browsers css optimization sprites webdev