Manuel-Bieh.de – Web-Development & Consulting

18 mistakes that kill startups
– http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

7 lovely things about HTML5
– http://www.elated.com/articles/7-lovely-things-about-html5-markup/

Lists are cool. So here is another one: 15 HTML5 Canvas Applications Developers Should Know About
– http://smashinghub.com/15-html5-canvas-applications-developers-should-know-about.htm

CSS3 @font-face design guide
– http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-font-face-design-guide

Published more than a year ago but still worth reading: Signs of a poorly written jQuery plugin:
– http://remysharp.com/2010/06/03/signs-of-a-poorly-written-jquery-plugin/

Many of you have probably used or at least heard of the famfamfam silk iconset in the past. 1000 free 16×16px icons for every purpose you can think of. Many websites or software packages are using it.

But 1000 icons means (in case you really use all of them) 1000 HTTP requests which is really a lot. And even if you’re using only ~100 icons, that’s still a lot of HTTP requesting.

For this reason I created a small CSS sprite version of the popular iconset including all 1000 icons in one single 299K png file + 1 stylesheet (56 KiB). (Filesize was reduced almost by half! (355K instead of 646K, that’s a reduction by 46%)).

Usage

Very simple. Just add a span to your markup, then add the class „icon“ and „iconname„.

Example:
<span class="icon attach"></span>

Download

Grab the file here:
http://www.manuel-bieh.de/publications/download/fff-sprites.zip

License

As the original iconset, the sprite is filed under Creative Commons Attributions 2.5