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Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

A great and valid argument against using experimental CSS.

During the design phase, being able to tweak the pixel look and dimensions of an icon should be as simple as possible; adjusting many lines of CSS code to do this is not it, especially if you didn’t write the CSS originally. You want that icon a little bigger? Tough luck, it was created by someone else at 32 by 32 pixels, now it’s up to you to figure out how to make it all work for 36 by 36. Similarly, implementing an icon should be as simple as writing a CSS background property or adding an <img alt=”" /> tag. It shouldn’t involve adding six meaningless HTML elements nor twenty lines of CSS per icon.

Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

An informative article for those like me who take image compression for granted.