Simon Willison’s Weblog

To Sprite Or Not To Sprite. CSS sprite images are decompressed to full bitmaps by browsers before they are rendered, so sprite files with large numbers of pixels will dramatically increase the memory footprint of your site.

# 24th June 2009, 10:33 am / css, csssprites, performance, velocityconference

CSS Sprite Generator (via) Upload a zip file of images and get back a CSS sprite plus a set of pre-calculated background image rules. Tool built by Ed Eliot and Stuart Colville for their forthcoming book “High Performance Web Site Techniques”.

# 27th September 2007, 10:59 pm / css, csssprites, edeliot, performance, spritegenerator, stuart-colville