Motio is a free jQuery plugin for simple but powerful sprite based animations and panning. Motio is called on an element representing animation container, where animation is delivered as a CSS background image. In...
If you are optimizing a website for speed, one of the major changes that I would recommend is combining images into sprites. Not all of them, of course. I usually convert small images that...
Sprite Cow is a visual tool for generating CSS background sprites. Okay, cool! But what is a sprite? I knew those old school designers (still slicing their large images) would ask this question. A...
The technique of stitching many images into a larger image is called CSS Sprite and it saves you many network calls for your image assets. CSS Sprites is one of the best way to...
jQuery.spritely is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript. Its a great alternative to Flash if your desired platform does not support Flash. It’s a simple,...
A sprite combines multiple background images into a single image. This is a technique for making web pages faster because it reduces the number of downloads in the page. Background images make pages look...
There are four buttons on this example, each of which has three states. That would normally be 12 images (thus 12 server requests), but thanks to the CSS sprites technique it is only one....
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