[whatwg] Built-in image sprite support in HTML5

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, David Weitzman <dweitzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reviving an old question here: is there anything in current or
> upcoming web specs that should give me hope that I will eventually see
> a day when sprites are either unnecessary at a protocol level or
> easily supported in <img> tags?

The thread you're continuing answered that question.  The Media
Fragments spec allows one to address a piece of a sprite sheet as an
image (for use in <img> and the like) when it is supported.

On the protocol level, SPDY should reduce much of the pain of multiple
small resources, and make spriting unnecessary or at least less
necessary.

~TJ