Comments on: CSS Sprites + Firefox Content Preferences = Site Go Boom

By: ecocaJesTaide

ecocaJesTaide — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:19:12 +0000

Councillor Padawan Municipal Council Exco Wanita SPDP

By: Maarten van der Pijl

Maarten van der Pijl — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:34:21 +0000

Hi Sasha!

First of all: this comment is way off-topic.
I am sorry if this is inappropriate, but I have a special request and don’t know how I can reach you in another way.

Last december I was in Thailand and met Mike & Marquez.
We agreed to contact each other to exchange photos, but I have lost their email address and I haven’t heard from them too.
So I googled for Mark & Marquez and arrived at your Flickr site.
Would you be so kind as to send me their email address?

Thanking you in advance.

Maarten van der Pijl
The Netherlands

By: Robbie

Robbie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:34:05 +0000

Another gotcha (which you may or may not know about) is that pages w/ CSS sprite don't print because most browsers don't print background images. As a programmer, I'd try serving up inline images via the data:[][;base64], urls, to the browsers that support them. Which seems to includes every browser not engineered in Redmond, WA (haven't tried IE 8 yet - so there's still hope). See the following for examples and documentation… websiteoptimization Wikipedia IETF HTML guru on how you get it to work on IE Keep up the great blog posts...

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:16:29 +0000

Please consider accessibility issues (http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech) when using features like CSS sprites; some users may need larger fonts or different colors.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:19:47 +0000

You should * always specify both a foreground and a background colour, as recommended by the W3C, for these reasons!

By: Chris Bower

Chris Bower — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:44:48 +0000

Ugh! Thanks for the heads up. We just switched some of our site over to CSS Sprites, and I’m surprised we haven’t seen this complaint yet.

Doesn’t developing a site for a large user base just suck sometimes?

Chris Bower
Web Developer / Team Lead
Townhall.com