[wp-hackers] Adding A CSS Loader

Chris chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com
Mon Apr 23 18:41:52 GMT 2007


Another point..
Because CSS files are a cascade, would the order that plugins insert 
their CSS files potentially change the final CSS result?
Chris

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> Jamie Holly wrote:
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>> My original post was that we could use the new method to then add a caching
>> mechanism to have WP combine all CSS files into one "master" CSS file that
>> could be generated and stored/called from a server writeable directory (ie -
>> cache or uploads). That way when you got a bunch of plugins working off this
>> system, instead of having all those make additional server requests for
>> their independent CSS file, a single CSS file would load. Of course we would
>> have to look at options, such as enabling/disabling the caching and a cache
>> delete function for plugin updates. 
>>
>> Jamie Holly
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> Whether you employ a caching layer or not really make a difference at
> that point.
>
> Unless these are dynamically generated (MySQL-based) CSS files (highly
> unlikely), then the benefit from the actual caching is close to null;
> especially because everything else that matters is still dynamic. That
> and the fact that simply doing
>
> text1 .= text2;
>
> ..doesn't really take up much of anything! ;)
>
> However, you are correct: it would cut the number of separate loads to
> the server, which would result in faster page loads - BUT not any less
> load on the server (realistically speaking).
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