From dd1dceef4741debd07b7f7e0cb5715023d6a7587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kjs Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 08:14:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Critical of automatic merging of stylesheets --- doc/todo/concatenating_or_compiling_CSS.mdwn | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/concatenating_or_compiling_CSS.mdwn b/doc/todo/concatenating_or_compiling_CSS.mdwn index 068be9398..8f35fb552 100644 --- a/doc/todo/concatenating_or_compiling_CSS.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/concatenating_or_compiling_CSS.mdwn @@ -157,3 +157,25 @@ this without that feature initially. >>> >>> As you pointed out, CSS inclusion is more painful than it should be, and >>> your proposal seems to answer that. Go ahead! --[[Louis|spalax]] + +> Concatenating the theme css as is done now results in files that are +> unecessarily large with a doubling of a lot of selectors etc. It only makes +> sense for changes that should be local.css anyway. Catted css is inefficient +> both while downloading and while rendering. I've disabled the catting in the +> makefile to avoid this on my personal site. In my view it would be better for +> theme developers to work from the basewiki style, if lazy just add their +> changes to the end of it, or if speed is of secondary importance @import it. +> +> The advanced melding of stylesheets discussed sounds quite complicated with +> likely useability problems when the site don't quite look as expected. Hunting +> down the problematic css will be difficult. +> +> Are there parsers that remove double defined selectors according to cascading +> rules as is done in browser? This would at least produce cleaner css but the +> useability problems would remain. +> +> When using complete themes and hunting that last bit of speed a config option +> to turn off local.css would probably be a good idea? Plugin css is difficult. +> A choice between a plugin complete theme or a local.css (or @import from it) +> would be a simple solution that lets you choose how you prioritize speed +> vs convenience. --[[kjs]]