Here is a way to serve compressed .css files (and others) with shared hosting that does not have mod_gzip or mod_deflate enabled: http://blog.mycila.com/2009/08/godaddy-gzip-compression.html In the .htaccess file, the line that excludes Safari can be removed.
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Al Sparber <aspar...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > > On 11/6/2010 2:51 PM, Gabriele Romanato wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> Since the overwhelming majority of my clients own websites hosted on >> shared hosts, I was wondering if there's a straight way to compress CSS >> without taking into account the oddities of the default configuration of >> the web server , which varies greatly from hoster to hoster. >> Almost a year ago I switched to YUI Compressor for minification and it >> really works. Now I want to use compression on shared hosts, but I'm >> afraid of getting thorugh all the tests with the .htaccess file that, by >> the way, it's limited in some ways on a shared host. And yes, there's no >> way to access the infamous httpd.conf file on such hosts ! >.< Did you >> find a solution to this problem? A couple of months ago I stumbled on a >> PHP script that performs minifcation using the ob_ function group and >> includes. Nice, but what about compression? I know that I could activate >> the gzlib compression via PHP, but I don't know if this will succeed on >> a shared host. Hope you have some answer, as always. > > I don't have a suggestion, but I have an opinion... > > I think minification is unimportant unless you have a horrendously complex > and verbose CSS file such as, for example, Yahoo developers tend to write :-) > > Perhaps if CSS authoring was where it has evolved now, back in the age of > dominant dial-up connections, it would be somewhat useful. > > -- > Al Sparber - PVII > http://www.projectseven.com > Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets > http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm > The Ultimate Web 2.0 Carousel > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
