Could take all the small images like help, permissions, configure, and fieldset collapse arrows and make into one sprite to cut down on http request.

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sun.core commented
Version: 7.0-alpha1 » 8.x-dev
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sun.core commented
Component: drupal.css » markup

Moving "drupal.css" component issues to "markup".

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jacine
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I don't know about this. It would make it harder on people to take a single image and modify it. Not sure if it's worth the trade off in this case since it's very few images are their use is scattered.

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delmarr commented

Hi Jacine, Your right it would be abit more complicated. My thinking was if drupal 7 was slower. Frontend performance could alleviate some of the pressure. This would be entirely for the drupal admin area, not sure how many themers alter the admin area...

thoughts?

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jbrown commented

Its a very effective technique. YouTube do it: http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/master-vfl149944.png

The images should be aggregated into a single file in an automated manner, a bit like css/js (but not on a page by page basis), but this is a very tall order. The css background-image coords would need to be generated.

There are 3rd party libraries that can do the image aggregation and then shrink it as much as possible.

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jacine
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It is a very tall (and ambitious) order. In addition to the getting this automated, Drupal's default markup isn't in a state in which sprites can be used everywhere, so it would mean markup changes in many places. :)

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jbrown commented

It could be part of the drupal.org packaging process.

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jhedstrom
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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Marking as a duplicate of #565752: Core images (i.e. images in /misc) should use CSS sprites.