In the latest issue of A List Apart, Dave Shea revisits his influential CSS Sprites technique for navigation treatment. This time around, however, the technique leans less on CSS as a sole driver and more on JavaScript, particularly the jQuery library.

As evident by this very site, I’ve been delving more into jQuery, Moo, Prototype and the like to enhance some of my more recent work. Used properly, these libraries are not only instrumental, but essential for modern web designers. As a testament to that fact, Dave’s latest article is well written and outlines the steps needed to take on jQuery as an additive design element and not a design crutch.

Read “CSS Sprites2 - It’s JavaScript Time”