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		validuser on April 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and wh... Why use an image at all when css background-color exists?

creativenolo on April 22, 2022 | [–]

As the article mentions, the browser requests an image and to respond with anything different would take as many bytes if not more.

dingdingdang on April 22, 2022 | [–]

This is the comment I just ctrl-f'd for: exactly?!

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