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I’ll be linking to individual Pens as I discuss the lessons I learned, but if you’d like to get a sense of the entire project, check out 60 days of Animation on Undead Institute. I started this project to end on August 1st, 2020, coinciding with the publication of a book I wrote featuring CSS animation, humor, and zombies — because, obviously, zombies will destroy the world if you don’t brandish your web skills and stop the apocalypse. Nothing puts the hurt on the horde like a HTML element on the move!

I think of an SVG sprite as this:

<svg display="none">
  <symbol id="icon-one"> ... </symbol><symbol>
  </symbol><symbol id="icon-two"> ... </symbol><symbol>
  </symbol><symbol id="icon-three"> ... </symbol><symbol>
</symbol></svg>

I was long a fan of that approach for icon systems (<use></use>-ing them as needed), …

HTTP/2 has been one of my areas of interest. In fact, I’ve written a few articles about it just in the last year. In one of those articles I made this unchecked assertion:

If the user is on HTTP/2: You’ll

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a {
  background: url(sprite.png) no-repeat;
  display: block;
  height: 30px;
  width: 250px;
}

a:hover {
  background-position: 0 -30px;
}

The set height and width ensure only a portion of the sprite.png graphic is shown. The rollover shifts the position of the …