CSS & Sprites - Obey Your Thirst For Speed

image No, not that kind of sprite.  I’m talking about loading an image onto a page and only using part of it at a time.  There have been a ton of people that talk about this technique.

Chris Coyier, the author of a blog that I follow, really seems to like the technique.  Today, I happened upon a site that uses it pretty well.

It’s a small startup company called… GOOGLE!

Anyway, I thought it was kind of cool.  Below is the image that they use on iGoogle.

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