Comments on: Better Foreground Sprites http://learningtheworld.eu/2008/better-foreground-sprites/ Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: WEB 3.0 » ¿Así que querías saber (casi todo) de CSS? http://learningtheworld.eu/2008/better-foreground-sprites/comment-page-1/#comment-36569 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:34:37 +0000 http://learningtheworld.eu/?p=106#comment-36569 […] Better Foreground Sprites – Martin Kliehm […]

]]> By: Martin Kliehm http://learningtheworld.eu/2008/better-foreground-sprites/comment-page-1/#comment-34395 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:57:01 +0000 http://learningtheworld.eu/?p=106#comment-34395 Will, thanks for the hint. There were indeed people describing this technique five years ago! That explains why this technique can be found in a combination with terrible table layout within the Google search results page. Strange that they waste an incredible amount of bytes, hardware, and energy by using antiquated templates.

As a side effect I should note that you can also use this technique to set a background color for the span and apply some opacity. That fixes the problem of inherited transparency on the text when your designers just want the background to be transparent.

]]> By: Will http://learningtheworld.eu/2008/better-foreground-sprites/comment-page-1/#comment-34393 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:01:51 +0000 http://learningtheworld.eu/?p=106#comment-34393 This has been around a while, and is called the Shea Method, after Dave Shea (css Zen guy). He has a good overview of the methods on his site.

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