chriseppstein/compass — pull request #708 by Xananax (2012-02-08 17:12:56+00:00)
Title: Modified "background" property to be "background-image"

I had sprites with transparency that I used throughout the website, using different background-colors in different places, specially with :hover and :active selectors. The current implementation of the sprite helper used "background: $sprite no-repeat" which was overriding my background-color property; I changed it to:
background-image:$sprite, background-repeat:no-repeat, which allows more granular setting-up of the background property.