On 9/3/07, Ken Woodruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Not specifically Mason, but...
>
> >> Makes sense to a point...but why load 10 files if the page only
> >> needs 2?
>
> Because files are cached by browsers, unless the CSS code itself is
> dynamic or the large majority of users hit exactly one page ever on
> your site concatenation is unlikely to be a net benefit. If you
> make the CSS dynamic, e.g. having a "smart" concatenator at "http://
> www.example.com/my-mason-concatenator.css", caching won't work and
> the browser will have to download the entire CSS on every hit, even
> if it's the same content as last time. Since browsers may also cache
> the *parsed* CSS in memory you'll can also have a performance hit on
> the client side.
>
>
>
I'm allowing the dynamic css and javascript requests to be cached though.
So going from 5 js include tags to one (with caching allowed) reducing the
number of http queries.
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