Hi Marius,
On Nov 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
Jerome Velociter wrote:
Hi Thibaul, all
Something easy to do that would contribute to reduce the number of
CSS
files is to concatenate all the WYSIWYG CSS files from the various
plugins at build time (there are more than 10 AFAIK). Marius, have
you
looked into this? Do you know if this could be done in the 2.1
timeframe ?
There are I think three steps to be taken in order to minimize the
CSS load:
1) expand @import url('someURL');
2) concatenate CSS files
3) minify the resulted CSS file
So far I haven't found a tool to expand the CSS import declaration.
Maybe I could write a small maven plugin for this.
I've found this:
http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/javascript_and_css_concatenation
which leads to wro4j:
http://code.google.com/p/wro4j/
hmmm....
Sounds promising.
Thanks
-Vincent
>
> I think we can adapt to maven what is presented in this article
>
http://www.samaxes.com/2009/05/combine-and-minimize-javascript-and-css-file…
> in order to achieve the last two steps.
>
> Marius
>
>>
>> Note that the target of 1 CSS and 1 JS is pretty challenging for
>> XWiki
>> as we are also making it a modular software where CSS and JS
>> extensions
>> can be conditionally loaded on some (not all) of the pages.
>> Something to
>> investigate for JavaScript extensions could be a dynamic JS loading
>> mecanism, a la dojo
>> (
http://dojocampus.org/content/2008/10/09/dojo-module-packaging-and-loading/
>> )
>>
>> Jerome.
>>
>> PS: I put devs in copy as this is more a developer topic.
>>
>> On 11/5/09 5:28 PM, Thibaut Camberlin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Page Loading time is a very important criteria when developing a
>>> web site.
>>> According to a recent
>>>
survey<http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/users-place-more-weight-on…
>>> >more
>>> than half people would drive away from a site with slow loading
>>> pages.
>>>
>>> There are several interesting issues that could be implemented to
>>> substantially improve page loading time in XWiki.
>>>
>>> Number one is aggreation of CSS and JS files in order to reduce
>>> HTTP
>>> requests. (For info, we have a total of 25 external CSS and JS
>>> files on a
>>> basic XWiki install when in the best world we would have just 2 -
>>> 1 CSS and
>>> 1 JS)
>>>
>>> Someone interrested in working on this with me ?
>>>