Here is the original article that described the technique: http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2009/06/01/how-to-compress-css-javascript-an-alternative-to-mod_deflate-or-mod_gzip/
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Gabriele Romanato <gabriele.roman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > Since the overwhelming majority of my clients own websites hosted on shared > hosts, I was wondering if there's a straight way to compress CSS without > taking into account the oddities of the default configuration of the web > server , which varies greatly from hoster to hoster. > Almost a year ago I switched to YUI Compressor for minification and it > really works. Now I want to use compression on shared hosts, but I'm afraid > of getting thorugh all the tests with the .htaccess file that, by the way, > it's limited in some ways on a shared host. And yes, there's no way to > access the infamous httpd.conf file on such hosts ! >.< Did you find a > solution to this problem? A couple of months ago I stumbled on a PHP script > that performs minifcation using the ob_ function group and includes. Nice, > but what about compression? I know that I could activate the gzlib > compression via PHP, but I don't know if this will succeed on a shared host. > Hope you have some answer, as always. > > bye > > Gabriele Romanato :-) > > http://www.css-zibaldone.com > http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English) > http://www.css-zibaldone.com/articles/ (English) > http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/ (English) > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
