Thanks Philippe. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 18, 2014, at 8:06 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Le 17 janv. 2014 à 23:58, Tom Livingston <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> As an example, i've got 8 page templates well under way and my >> minified sheet is 23k. Does that sound bad? > > I don’t think so, unless your page templates are of the very static kind with > little additional user interaction or animations. CSS animations in > particular tend to add quite a bit of weight to stylesheets. And things like > Jquery-UI tend to generate quite a bit of weight as well (their default > stylesheet is _very_ bloated). Size of a stylesheet is never really a problem > for modern browsers, they can easily parse through it without hick-up (unlike > IE 6 which had an upper limit of 6000 selectors, IIRC). > > You mention Sass & mixins. There is something I noticed on 2 different sites > that rely heavily on those: the final stylesheet has multiple > @media min-width(value:x) { > .class1 { property:value } > } > @media min-width(value:x) { > .class2 { property:value } > } > > instead of > @media min-width(value:x) { > .class1 { property:value } > .class2 { property:value } > } > (with real property and value names of course) - that adds a bit of bloat to > the sheet. > > It is not clear to me if this is an inherent limit to Sass/mixins or a > particular set-up. I personally have a hard time getting into a workflow with > lots of Sass. > > On the other hand, the 23k minified you mention, that boils down to what, > 5~6k gzipped? So from a network point of view, not worth worrying. > > > Philippe > -- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] 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/
