i'm getting ready to do some coding that will have a lot of images on a page. more than 100 images. the application will be sort of somethign like flickr or istockphoto - similar in that it will have lots of photos on category pages. i'm going to use as much css for the markup. but have some questions, hopefully some pros can answer for me. 1. is it faster to have the image paths in the css file? or should i just use the img tag in the html doc? B. does using sprites REALLY make a big speed difference? next. regarding sprites... do you just create a single file, with, for example, the 100 images in it and then it's called that way? what if i have a page and it only needs 1 image from that sprite. doesn't it have to load the entire sprite image to show just the single image? 6) and lastly. that's it. no more questions for now. thanks.
wow, re-reading that post, i can see now how tired i was... anyway... anybody have thoughts on this??