Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete | NCZOnline: "Before getting into how data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete, it helps to examine the problem that CSS sprites solved. The problem is that HTTP requests are a major performance bottleneck for web pages. The more requests you have, the longer it takes your page to load and the slower it is, so every little image you load onto a page fights against you in your quest for page speed."
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