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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)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(a)55.gz, yet a whole
load of hassle if want to try and read it.
Jared