Google Gmail Smilie Linking Trick

I was in Gmail and did a "View Image" on the first smiley of Gmail's and something surprising came up:

http://mail.google.com/mail/e/_default.2.s

It doesn't do that with the other smilies.

How does Gmail link to that single smiley when it is lumped together with all the other ones?

I notice it does it with some smilies but not all.

http://mail.google.com/mail/e/gtalk.2.s

http://mail.google.com/mail/e/338

Very strange.

 

wow thats party cool

 

http://mail.google.com/mail/e/338 <<---- Just keep increasing this number ull get single smilies . I Mean like keeping 1 to 338

 

Correcting the number,

http://mail.google.com/mail/e/1 - don't work

and you have to make the number in three digits:

http://mail.google.com/mail/e/001

 

Great post and cool friend

 

they're lovely and cute

 

How do I find the basic square smile? Do you know?

 

Google does similar trick in their search results page too. It must be faster image loading.

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo7.png

 

ehm
nice share

 

It's called "CSS Sprites" i do this also it reduces the number of http requests and speeds up page loads.

 

lol, great post!