samhuri.net/posts/2011/12/pure-css3-images-hmm-maybe-later.md

Title	Author	Date	Timestamp	Link
Pure CSS3 images? Hmm, maybe later	Sami Samhuri	11th December, 2011	2011-12-11T12:25:03-08:00	http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2011/pure-css3-images-hmm-maybe-later/

Great analysis of the performance of CSS based images. Not directly mentioned, but very apparent, is that the task of making CSS images itself is prohibitively difficult.