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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Aryeh Gregor
Sent: 24 September 2009 15:48
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] JS2 design (was Re: Working towards
branchingMediaWiki 1.16)
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
* Removes a few RTTs for non-pipelining
clients
Do you mean to imply that there's such a thing as a
pipelining client on the real web? (Okay, okay, Opera.)
This concern seems like it outweighs all the others put
together pretty handily -- especially for script files that
aren't at the end, which block page loading.
* Automatically create CSS sprites?
That would be neat, but perhaps a bit tricky.
Just trying to think how it'd work.
Given a CSS selector, and an image, should be able to construct a
stylesheet which sets the background property of the css rules and an
single image.
(#toolbar-copy, toolbar-copy.png)
(#toolbar-copy:hover, toolbar-copy-hover.png)
And the generated stylesheet would get concatenated with other
stylesheets.
Jared