Data URI Sprites – Manage Website’s Background Images
Data URI Sprites are also known as DURIS, it is an automated solution for building Data URI CSS Sprites for background images. Data URIs is an ideal tool of using data in-line in web pages, is a great method for cutting down the HTTP requests and speeding up your websites.
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Data URIs provides the following advantages:
• all background images will be loaded in one HTTP request
• using this program it is also possible to quickly rebuild CSS sprites after making changes
Data URIs supports the following browsers:
• Mozilla Firefox and other Gecko-based
• Internet Explorer 6 & 7
• Internet Explorer 8
• Safari, Chrome and other WebKit-based
• Opera
DURIS (Data URI [CSS] Sprites) has been developed as a new method to manage website’s background images. It has been created to replace the classical CSS Sprites.
The benefits provided by DURIS are:
• It allows you to apply any corrections to your make-up with out much effort
• allows you to minimize number of requests for design-related data that is used on the webpage
• it uses non graphic text format of image data presentation
• allows you to create fully semantic HTML/CSS-code
• its an ideal solution for all problems with scaling for background images
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