Silk Icon Set CSS: Using CSS Clipping and Optimized Silk Icon Image

First off, I have to start by saying I absolutely love FamFamFam.com’s free “Silk” icon set. It is unequivocally the most valuable set of free images I have ever used and I recommend if you use it you donate accordingly. With 1000 icons, each roughly 1KB in size, it is understandable how eventually it would get cumbersome for a web application interface using 20 to 30 of these icons at a time to continue to try to handle each of these images individually. Moreover, as often as these icons are used across the web, it made sense to me that the popular image-clipping CSS method might be valuable not just for my own web application development but others as well. What is the CSS Clipping Method and Why While I’m not the best at explaining...