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Are CSS Sprites and Imaging Slicing exact opposite techniques?
As I understand it, CSS Sprites involves loading ONE BIG image and then using background positioning to display it appropriately.
Slicing on the other hand seems to involing taking one large image and CARVING it into many smaller images to send from the server one at a time.
If so why would I want to use one and not the other?
Is one approach better?
the benefit of only having a single image to download is that when switching out the image (perhaps on a rollover), there is no flicker or additional loading required - so it should seem more fluid. also, it saves having to create multiple files and name them x_off.gif, x_roll.gif, x_on.gif etc.