Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (105 mails)

[Frank Sundermeyer <fs@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 07 August 2006 13:15, houghi wrote:

Hi,

> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:56:09PM +0200, Frank Sundermeyer wrote:
> > this is due to the fact that we want to be compatbile to the
> > MediaWiki styles. At the moment we are loading the original
> > Monobook styles and overwrite parts of them afterwards with
> > customized styles. In regards of performance this is probably the
> > worst thing we could do, but this is the only way that allows us to
> >
> > - benefit from MediaWiki's adjustments for different browsers
> > - and be able to update to new MediaWiki versions without having
> >   to rewrite major parts of the template and the css
>
> Would it not be possible to remove those things that you overwrite?

no - I would have to do this every time MediaWiki is updated.

> Also the site gives some tips. Reduce spaces. You could also remove
> the comments and carrier returs and such.

... making it almost impossible to edit the file afterwards... ;)

Anyway - I am not if the css files really affect performance 
significantly. After all they only get loaded _once_ and are served 
from the local browser cache afterwards.

-- 
Regards
        Frank

Frank Sundermeyer, SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg
Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-7417755;  http://www.novell.com/
"Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane" Dogbert

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