Hi Ludovic,

Just found this email in my inbox, and was surprised by the similarity 
with the Skin Extensions proposal.

Ludovic Dubost wrote:
> 
> Currently the albatross skin loads around 10 js and 10 css, which is 
> quite a lot.
> We can improve loading time by:
> 
> - compression and cache (raffaello will provide Apache configs specific 
> to XWiki to help for that)
> - merging and optimizations of css/js (I've published 
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Code/MergeCSS to help on that)
> - removing unused css/js (now we need to find which one are unused)
> - conditional loading of css and js.
> 
> This last improvement can help us a lot since some of the css/js are not 
> even used in view mode, or are only used by a specific panel.
> For this my proposal is to add a feature to the core to allow 
> conditional loading of CSS and JS files.
> The current macros in the header would instead of putting CSS and JS add 
> a placeholder for additional CSS and JS.
> Then everywhere where we need these CSS/JS (in a panel, in a wiki page, 
> in a template) we would call a macro #includecss or #includejs
> This macro would add in the context the CSS and JS to add.
> At the end of the template rendering the placeholder would be replaced 
> by the added CSS and JS.
> The page would be served.
> 
> This would allow to manage the way CSS and JS are added.
> 
> WDYT ?
> 
> Ludovic
> 

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

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