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.

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Answer 1

Simon - My experience is that this is certainly still a problem.

In response to your second question, why not use transparent padding? (Perhaps you are still supporting ie6 and this is non-trivial, in which case, I'm really sorry).