Css Sprites Vs Svg. Sprites help increase speed maintain a consistent development workflow and make the creation of icons much faster. Sprites are popular for bundling graphics into a single file.
If youre building an icon system for a site you have some options. Both CSS techniques are good the SVG technique adds a nice and familiar interaction resulting in a nicer experience but that is not to say that the UX of the CSS techniques is bad. Its a bu m mer that given the requirements we couldnt use SVG sprites in CSS as background images.
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Live Demo of IcoMoon SVG. Its a bu m mer that given the requirements we couldnt use SVG sprites in CSS as background images. SVG seems to just work when supported. Each one has its pros and cons.