<p>Isn't IE8 the bigger issue? It's only Safari 4 and older that don't do it by my reading?</p>

<p>To be honest I'm more curious about how the <code>background-position</code> works to select the right bit of the sprite when we're using an SVG image that doesn't have pixels as such!</p>

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