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ss16 - a self-centered, fresh attempt at (user)styling 4chan * * created on: February 11th, 2016 * last modified: May 16th, 2017 * 4chan X version: ccd0 1.13.89.3 / https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x * created by: @saxamaphone69 * (loose) coding style: https://github.com/necolas/idiomatic-css * * in an attempt to make the style as user-friendly as possible, i will * comment most of the css to explain what it all does * * please leave any comments, suggestions, or feedback on github: * https://github.com/saxamaphone69/ss16 * */ /** * this userstyle utilises a lot of best practices * and sensible defaults inspired from a variety of * stylish and modern web frameworks and resources, mainly: * https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap */ /** * first thing we do, is we use web fonts from google! * this is so users aren't required to download fonts prior. * and of course, if you don't want to or don't like it, * delete or change it accordingly. we use roboto, roboto mono, * karla, and material icons. circular has been removed in the production * version of ss16 to not only keep the file size down, but also * to not have a font that i don't own the license for :^) */

t's a good practice usually only for very small CSS images that are going to be used together (like CSS sprites) when IE compatibility doesn't matter, and saving the request is more important than cacheability. It has a number of notable downsides: Doesn't work at all in IE6 and 7. Works for resources only up to 32k in size in IE8. It saves a request, but bloats the HTML page instead! And makes images uncacheable. They get loaded every time the containing page or style sheet get loaded. Base64 encoding bloats image sizes by 33%. If served in a gzipped resource, data: images are almost certainly going to be a terrible strain on the server's resources! Images are traditionally very CPU intensive to compress, with very little reduction in size.