[whatwg] Built-in image sprite support in HTML5

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:

> > HTTP-level solutions are vulnerable to broken proxies and caches, of
> which
> > there are many. This is why HTTP pipelining doesn't really work.
>
> Yeah I know, but does that mean HTML should work around lack of
> features in HTTP? I mean you could say HTML5 is vulnerable to broken
> browsers :-)
>

Yes, but if the browser has a bug it is much easier to detect, fix and
deploy the fix.

Rob
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