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		notatoad on July 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problems with the CSS background-image property the hn vote arrow is not a sprite - it's a single image, displayed rotated 180 degrees for the downvote. https://news.ycombinator.com/grayarrow.gif

catmanjan on July 28, 2019 [–]

Huh, I always thought it was an alt code character...

notatoad on July 28, 2019 | [–]

it could be. i don't know why they use a gif instead. i usually keep HN at 125% zoom and the vote arrows look really terrible.

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