css-sprites

Is there an equivalent of spriting for SVG images in web pages?

SVG images aren’t bitmaps, so (unless I’m missing something) you can’t do spriting like you can with other images files used on web pages (see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites). But is there an equivalent mechanism to display only part of an SVG image as a CSS background? E.g. imaginary syntax: div.my-special-svg-div { b...

Sprite Sheets for Web Development

I'm currently working on a new site. I'm just a few pages deep and they all use <img>s. I was thinking about it and decided to look into using a sprite sheet for all of the button images and such and then just using CSS to render the appropriate images. I wanted to see what everyone thought about this. Is it worth the effort? How does it...