-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mets501 Sent: 07 February 2007 21:50 To: 'Wikimedia developers' Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bandwidth usage
However, that will make debugging very hard indeed. Not
sure how big a
consideration that is, but I know that I have often looked
into the MW
stylesheets to see how particular stylings are acheived
when making my own
css rules.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
Just from a quick check of http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css?55, removing all the possible white space will reduce it in size from 30882 bytes to 23411 bytes, saving 7471 bytes (24%). That's a drastic change in size, and if done would save a ton of bandwidth (over time). If you're concerned about readability, perhaps two files are warranted, a "readable" file and a "usable" file, and the readable one could be linked from a comment at the top of the usable one.
Waste of time if your gzipping. 7,772 bytes for main.css@55.gz, yet a whole load of hassle if want to try and read it.
Jared