Add experimental image de-duplication using css custom properties #472
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-xenables an experimental approach to de-duplicating image assets through custom CSS properties. Initial results show significant reduction in sizes:This is significantly under tested. It also seems to add significant browser parsing time, but many of these examples failed to fully load to compare.
Combined with #471, file sizes for sites that use image sprites and named SVG icons will be significantly smaller.