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The comments in this post really demonstrate the widespread pain points that everyone has when dealing with CSS sprites, and the existence of 30+ solutions indicates that nobody has really figured out how to fix it yet.

The lack of attention to SVG stacks (http://simurai.com/post/20251013889/svg-stacks) is very curious to me - being a proponent of this method/movement seems analogous to being pro-PNG in the era of GIFs.

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That's glorious :o I've only recently begun messing around with SVGs, but it seems the more I use them, the more amazing they become.

That said, I really do wish there was better browser support for them. Having to embed them as objects instead of images, for example, is a tad bit lame :/ And then you're still left with anything before IE9 (I think?) unable to see them. On the mobile-end, the same goes with anything before Android 3... Or weird buggy behaviour when you're applying things like hover effects to parts of the image, etc...

It's definitely promising though

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