[whatwg] Built-in image sprite support in HTML5

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:

> Yeah, I'd think this isn't really a problem that should be solved as
> part of HTML5 but rather as improvements to the protocol level.
> Spriting is after all just a hack around the strict 1-file-1-request
> nature of HTTP and not something that's really fundamental.
>
> For instance theoretically SPDY should solve this problem. Or indeed
> so would HTTP pipelining, if it was used more often.
>

HTTP-level solutions are vulnerable to broken proxies and caches, of which
there are many. This is why HTTP pipelining doesn't really work.

Rob
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