It loads the link even though the content is blank :/ Regards, Nischay Nahata
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:25 AM Nischay Nahata <nischay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I do use the file cache and yes, there could be performance issues with > purging too many problems at once. But again there's a situation where I > can avoid using Common.css altogether so I think there should be a way to > turn the module off. I don't know what happens if the common.css is empty, > I will try that out. > > Regards, > Nischay Nahata > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:04 AM Bartosz Dziewoński <matma....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> There is one important reason why we use <link> instead of >> <style>…</style>: when the rendered page HTML is cached, e.g. using a >> caching proxy like Varnish [1] or MediaWiki file cache [2], then if we >> used <style>…</style>, you would have to purge every page on the wiki >> before changes to MediaWiki:Common.css would actually take effect, >> because the CSS would be embedded in the cached HTML. >> >> Using <link> means that it only takes as long as it takes the cached >> resource to expire in the users' browsers. (By default, they are set to >> expire after 5 minutes.) >> >> If you don't have caching enabled, then of course that wouldn't matter – >> but also, if you don't have caching enabled, then that is probably a >> much worse performance problem than not embedding the styles :) >> >> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching >> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache >> >> -- >> Bartosz Dziewoński >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
