Tired of Sprites or just looking for an adventure?
0 Comments 29th APR 2009 | Posted by Željko Prša in Tools
It’s amazing how the web “best practices” become obsolete in a matter of months. The guys at Duris.ru seem to confirm that. What they have at their website for everyone to test and hopefully adopt is a new method of using background images.
The new method allows easy updating of the images, fewer http requests, enables scaling for the background images and a lot more:
The description of this method by the authors or…
Why is it better then CSS sprites?
- allows you to apply any corrections to your make-up painlessly
- allows you to minimize number of requests for design-related data that is used on the webpage
- uses text (non graphic) format of image data presentation
- allows you to create fully semantic HTML/CSS-code (w/o any non-semantic constructions for design purposes)
- solves all problems with scaling for background images
- combines images of different types and axes of repetition.
The method works great with IE6/7/8 except (of course) IE7 on Vista with non supported mhtml.
They’ve got examples page and a FAQ section
Head over there and have taste of new best pratices ’till they last 
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