On 1/6/20, 12:45 PM, "Harbs" <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes. JS specific.
It would be very hard to do a SWF compatible build of Spectrum.
So to me, this isn't so much about CSS as it is about externs. CSS that is
processed by the compiler is intended for multi-platform CSS. Multi-platform
CSS is encoded for use by ValuesManager and implementations on other platforms.
As Carlos noted in a recent thread, CSS is sort of downloaded twice by Royale
JS output, once in its .css file form for consumption by the browser, and a
second time as encoded CSS for use by the framework and application code. That
avoids having the framework code call getComputedStyles() and allows
non-comforming CSS like ClassReference("SomeBead"). Although there certainly
could be a better way to handle this.
On the other hand, the inject_html and externs are about 3rd-party or external
JS implementations. There have been other threads about how to handle
inject_html and have it inject local references to .js files. Right now I
think all inject_html use cases reference code on a CDN or some canonical URL
on the internet. It feels like this is the same problem and why you started by
asking about inject_html. You don't really need the compiler to look at this
CSS, you really want some amount of css and/or js (and maybe even html) to be
linked into the output instead of referenced by URL. Although it sounds like
you are also looking to aggregate these bits and pieces of external css or js
into fewer files.
So I recommend approaching the problem in two pieces: 1) what is the best way
to add js and css to the output files and 2) once you have some set, can you
aggregate it into fewer files?
Problem #2 sounds straightforward: search the output folder and combine files.
I guess it might be important what order you combine CSS files.
For Problem #1, instead of inject_html we could add something like
"include_file" that would reference a file in a SWC. Then folks could have
images, css, js, whatever, added to the output file. I think that wouldn't be
too hard to do. There is already code in the compiler copying stuff out of a
SWC
My 2 cents,
-Alex
> On Jan 6, 2020, at 8:56 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> But is that CSS platform-specific, or will that same CSS be needed if you
were to try to implement Spectrum in SWF? IMO, that's a key question for how
we solve this problem.
