good point as far as CSS is concerned as my files are mostly very small...
now as far as readability, etc, i for example have a site-wide debug switch that if on (among other things) uses uncompressed code and if off uses compressed code. the compression is simple just write a batch file or simple script or you can even automate the process (tons of tools out there for that) -Alex On Oct 16, 4:09 pm, mou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my opinion... the good point is, well, the reduction in file size. > The only thing is that your stylesheet is unlikely to be over 50kb > unless you've really gone to town. 50kb is a lot to someone on dial up, > but then so is most things on the web these days. To someone on > broadband, its very little. If you reduce it by 50%, you're left with > 25k - which is still a lot for dial-up and not for broadband. Yes it > helps, but it could turn out to be negligible. > > The bad point is that your CSS / JS files are going to become > unreadable. Or at least, very hard to read. So ideally you'll want to > keep a backup of the original - in which case you have to minify it > again every time you make a change. To me, thats a hassle I know I'd > get bored of by about the 3rd time. > > Although I can't see how it would take the browser longer to process. > If its being gzipped then maybe, but simply removing whitespace, etc? > I'd have thought that would actually speed things up because theres less > eroneous characters to process. Although I admit I may be wrong - > probably worth looking into. > > So I'd say as long as you're keeping a backup (which you say you do) > then theres no harm in it and there are *some* benefit, albeit small > benefits. If you can be bothered, do it. If not, don't bother! > > > > Alex Weber wrote: > > No I mean "minifying" like Paulo pointed out. > > Basically what it does is strip white-space, comments, shortens > > variable names, uses shorthand, etc, etc > > > approximately a 50% file-size reduction... YUI works for both JS and > > CSS > > > I usually use uncompressed stuff for development but compress > > everything for production... > > > just wanted to hear others opinions! > > > On Oct 15, 11:13 pm, "André Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Compressing CSS files? You mean using shorthand sintax? > > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Alex Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> i've been recommended to use Yahoo's YUI minifier to not only compress > >>> js files but also css files. > > >>> i've also read that compressed files = faster download but takes time > >>> to "decompress" for usage > > >>> so where's the line? > > >>> for example is it worth compressing a 5KB css file into a 3KB file? > >>> probably not right? > >>> where would you start? > > >>> also, are there any drawbacks to compressing css? > >>> thanks! > > >> -- > >> André Ferreira > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > Mouhttp://mou.me.uk/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
