Ber Kessels wrote:
NOTE: this is talk, not code!
I ran drupal.css trough http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php a great tool. And it compressed drupal.css up to ~30% (unreadable CSS). But the standard, readable version compresses it still 23%! That is 2632 Bytes less for every uncached pageview. I certainly will use this tool on my server.
Not really. I think stylesheets are usually cached by the browser, and they're not reloaded unless you click on 'reload page'
But it could also ship the compressed one by default with drupal, not? It would mean that we have an unreadable drupal.css (but who reads it anyway :P) but that we can save some bandwith.
I really prefer working with the actual file that is being used. If we want to compress something, better strip out all that php comments that are parsed for every page :-) About css's, as they can be always overridden by the theme, you can try to merge all of them together in an optimized one for your production sites -all that css element's overriding is what actually takes time when rendering the pages...