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links for 2010-07-31

• cssem­bed
  A tool for embed­ding data URIs in CSS files.
  (tags: css per­for­mance tools java)
• Data URIs make CSS spri­tes obsolete
  I was sit­ting in a talk given by Facebook’s Jason Sobel at Velocity this year, when I was a bit sur­pri­sed by an impas­sio­ned plea that he made at the tail end of the talk. To para­ph­rase, Jason said that CSS spri­tes require too much work for ave­rage web deve­lo­pers and that we should be pres­su­ring the bro­w­ser ven­dors to make this pro­cess easier. I was per­ple­xed for a moment. First, I don’t think CSS spri­tes are all that com­pli­ca­ted any­more, espe­cially with tools like the online CSS Sprite Generator rea­dily avai­la­ble. Second, CSS spri­tes only really have to be used for older bro­w­sers (loo­king at you, IE6 and IE7), as this pro­blem is easily sol­ved in other bro­w­sers by using data URIs. Jason’s epi­lo­gue made it even clea­rer to me that peo­ple still don’t under­stand the true power of data URIs and how they’ll tran­sform web deve­lo­p­ment going forward.
  (tags: css ima­ges per­for­mance 2010)

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