Re: [WSG] ALPHA Testers Needed

[Chris Stratford]

Hey Vlad, Thanks for the link I am downloading it now. Although I already fully coded my algorithm and its working 100% fine so far... I could have saved myself an hour or two :S Is the file a object for VB? thanks! Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: Hi Chris, I am still working on the Parsing algorigthm. If you are on Windows, you can use our free CSS parser. Here is the link: http://xstandard.com/page.asp?p=E784B605-2413-49B1-B17C-20A634CB0150 Regards, -Vlad XStandard Development Team XHTML Strict / 1.1 WYSIWYG editor http://xstandard.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Stratford To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 6:02 AM Subject: [WSG] ALPHA Testers Needed Hey List, I am currently developing a little software package which will help you manage your CSS and your bandwidth. What it does is it will compress your CSS. Its not very intelligent so it doesnt do anything really special. All it will do is Load a CSS file - Parse the file. It will then allow a few differnt levels of output. These are: VERBOSE - Which will include all the comments, full indentation etc... 1st Level Compression - Removes the comments - still full indentation 2nd Level Compression - Removes comments, removes tabbed indentation 3rd Level Compression - Removes comments, removes tabbed indentation, takes braces up onto a shared line (so they arent on their own lines) 4th Level Compression - Removes comments, removed tabbed indentation, takes braces up onto a shared line (so they arent on their own lines), removes line breaks between properties (so all selectors have a line of their own, with all the properties and values on that line)... 5th Level Compression - Removes comments, removed tabbed indentation, takes braces up onto a shared line (so they arent on their own lines), removes line breaks between properties (so all selectors have a line of their own, with all the properties and values on that line)..., removes the line beween classes - makes the CSS all on one single line.... OR I could have a bnch of checkboxes where you select what type of output you want... eg - indentation etc... At the moment the program does not compress anything. I am still working on the Parsing algorigthm. At the moment some of the problems I have had to over come are: When there are :'s in Selectors - eg: a.title:hover When there is no ; on the end of the last value, of a selector When there are ;'s etc inside comments... All those have been fixed. I just need to test a wide variety of files... If you want to participate please send me some of the weirdest CSS you have, which is 100% VALID on the W3C Validator. Thats what I am using as the Caveat for performance... it must first pass that test before you can compress it... Otherwise the results will vary a lot from what you expect... :) Thanks a lot! - Chris Stratford BTW - IF there are any programs out there that do this - please let me know! I want to see them!!! :) Also this will be 100% Freeware to members of the WSG list :) I might try and charge a $5 fee for licences in the future... Thanks again! ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************