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Suggestion: Spritesheet > One icon per sprite

Lower your loading time doing a simple thing

Tom, you should do a spritesheet for your icons. It would make a small difference to loading time, but a huge different to HTTP Requests per page loading.

Loading each icon as a separate file work, but it's a perfomance hit. Doing a spritesheet would make things a tad better and would make images load faster since it's just one huge image instead of loads of small.

Small details makes huge differences.

Example of sprite sheet: Twitters spritesheet

Resolution: Addressed

Planned: Testing with core icons, if beneficial then others may be merged as well.

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    Posted 11 months ago

    A few core sheets have been developed, they may get implemented in the coming days.

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    Posted 12 months ago

    my fault, I read icons and thought about the hundreds of game icons we've got heh.

    We do something similar for the logo itself so it wouldn't be much trouble for site icons. Will start that today.

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    Posted 12 months ago

    Posted by Logan Dougall

    game icons are all uploaded individually when a new game is added. Would be a bit painful to keep one sheet and update that everytime someone adds a game and then add in the css to go with the new addition.

    True, same would be for each new member who registers if there would've been a spritesheet for that, but that's not really what this is about since exceptions can always be made. (sorry if that sounded douchy)

    The major point of this "idea" is to add all the general icons onto one spritesheet which includes the tool icons and such.

    There are probably scripts out there that merges icons together into a spritesheet (using javascript for photoshop to do this for me atm), but I wouldn't rely on those since it might put the icons in different order sometimes.

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    Posted 12 months ago

    Posted by Logan Dougall

    game icons are all uploaded individually when a new game is added. Would be a bit painful to keep one sheet and update that everytime someone adds a game and then add in the css to go with the new addition.

    But for the navigation icons, it would be easy.

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    game icons are all uploaded individually when a new game is added. Would be a bit painful to keep one sheet and update that everytime someone adds a game and then add in the css to go with the new addition.

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