Do I still need to pad images in a CSS Sprite?

Question

In CSS Sprites you will often find padding between each image. I believe the idea is so that if the page is resized then one image won\'t bleed into another.

I thin

Answer 1

Basically the answer is yes. Two years to the day after I asked this question will see the release of IE9. IE9 has this problem just as much - if not more than any other browser...

It's pretty infuriating because it's such a simple thing to fix.

With iPads increasing in marketshare - its's pretty essential to at least have a half decent experience with zooming un-uniform amounts.

I am going to have to put a single pixel border around every image to match the background color of the adjacent element (potentially different on each side). Fortunately I auto-generate all my csssprites based on an .xml file - so I can do this programatically without too much hastle. It's still a huge pain though...