Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
spiriting .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nonstandard The development of
sprites (computer graphics), especially humanoid characters. - noun Internet The technique of storing multiple
images in a single larger image so that they load more quickly into awebpage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Marquise de Brinvilliers - a gentle, blue-eyed thing they tell us - a poor, insane creature she must have been - disseminated poison and death, and, just across and beyond the Place des Vosges, the Hotel de Sens, whither Queen Margot took her doll-rags and did her spriting after she and Henri Quatre had agreed no longer to slide down the same cellar door.
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Hard by is the house where the Marquise de Brinvilliers -- a gentle, blue-eyed thing they tell us -- a poor, insane creature she must have been -- disseminated poison and death, and, just across and beyond the Place des Vosges, the Hotel de Sens, whither Queen Margot took her doll-rags and did her spriting after she and Henri Quatre had agreed no longer to slide down the same cellar door.
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Hard by is the house where the Marquise de Brinvilliers -- a gentle, blue-eyed thing they tell us -- a poor, insane creature she must have been -- disseminated poison and death, and, just across and beyond the Place des Vosges, the Hotel de Sens, whither Queen Margot took her doll-rags and did her spriting after she and Henri Quatre had agreed no longer to slide down the same cellar door.
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This spriting behavior violated this rule all to often.
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Soon after that I want to start tackling foreground image spriting.
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What I had been finding was that many many sites and most if not all "sophisticated" sites already using some spriting render with unpleasant side-effects when they deploy RequestReduce without adjustments.
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I was worried that spriting would complicate managing the design.
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I must admit I was sceptical about it at first; spriting images, individual different loading behaviours of browsers … I thought they were premature optimization s.
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This latest version has automatic spriting, an updated nib2cib command-line tool, new tests and components, and new table view implementations.
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In addition to these big site-wide projects, we also performed a lot of general cleanup to make everything smaller and lighter, and we incorporated best practices such as image spriting.
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