Comments on: CSS Sprite Generator: Open Sourced and Adapted

By: Robsworld

Robsworld — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:03:00 +0000

Great stuff,

I was wondering if someone could explain how the MD5 checksum is beneficial? Is it the same thing as renaming the file to another random filename?

Regards Rob

By: AdamB

AdamB — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:42:53 +0000

If you’re interested in a post-build/deployment tool for web applications you should checkout the Sonic project on codeplex (http://www.codeplex.com/sonic/)

It’s just starting up, but it’s ultimate aim is to control CSS, JS, PNG compression (possibly spriting as well), as well as renaming files to control caching and updating all file references to the new filenames.

By: stanislawosinski

stanislawosinski — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:06:21 +0000

Nice tool, the md5 checksums option is really useful!

If you’re looking for a CSS sprite generator running as a desktop app (also Open Source / BSD), you may want to check this:

http://smartsprites.osinski.name/

Due to a different approach to the problem, the tool supports some additional CSS sprites scenarios (like spriting repeated backgrounds). It also automatically rewrites your CSS files, which might be sometimes more convenient. No online version yet though…

By: blankyao

blankyao — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:01:06 +0000

let me have a try