Hi Alec, I'm using this maven plugin on production releases: http://alchim.sourceforge.net/yuicompressor-maven-plugin/ that compress the CSS and the JS before packaging it into the WAR.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Martin Grigorov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Alec Swan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a LocalResourceScope class (aliased as "local" shared resource) >> and style.css in the same package. I can access >> resources/local/style.css directly from the browser and track the size >> of HTTP request/response to retrieve CSS. >> >> I also tried to do bind the CSS file as follows >> new CompressedResourceReference(LocalResourceScope.class, >> "style.css").bind(Application.get()) >> expecting it to reduce the amount of traffic, but it actually >> increased request size by about 10%. > > Compressing the *response* cannot affect anyhow the *request* size ;-) > >> >> So, why would anybody use CompressedResourceReference when >> contributing CSS? Is there a resource reference that would strip out >> spaces and comments from CSS? > > CompressedResourceReference uses GZip to squash the text content, so > all the rules in zip compression are valid here: > - more text content => better compression > - compressing binary content => negative effect > > For CSS (text content) the result size should be less than the original. > > CompressedResourceReference is removed in Wicket 1.5 because all Web > servers support it for all responses by switching a setting in their > config. No need Wicket to duplicate this support. > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alec >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > > -- > Martin Grigorov > jWeekend > Training, Consulting, Development > http://jWeekend.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- a10! i fins aviat. J:-Deu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
