Tei wrote:
Possibly-OFF-TOPIC-here
I see that ImageMagick can combine images in a single one.
A single image mean a single hit to a Apache, so it only have to spawn once.
On the clientside, a single image can draw multiple elements with some ninja CSS stuff. ( background-position?).
People have taken to calling that the "CSS sprite" technique, I mentioned it as a possibility in my original post.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites
I always thought the defining characteristic of a sprite was that it moved around the screen, not that it was copied from a grid, but there you have it.
-- Tim Starling