Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-19 Thread Adrian Crum
Thanks Joe! Joe Eckard wrote: On Jan 19, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: I found on the Tomcat website a configuration setting for compressing outgoing html/xml (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5- doc/config/http.html) but I don't where to configure it in the embedded version that

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-19 Thread Joe Eckard
On Jan 19, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: I found on the Tomcat website a configuration setting for compressing outgoing html/xml (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5- doc/config/http.html) but I don't where to configure it in the embedded version that OFBiz uses. It's under http-c

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-19 Thread Adrian Crum
I found on the Tomcat website a configuration setting for compressing outgoing html/xml (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html) but I don't where to configure it in the embedded version that OFBiz uses. David E. Jones wrote: The best way I've seen to handle this sort of t

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-19 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Adrian, > The zipped pages browser setting doesn't address the fundamental issue I > presented: OFBiz servers are pushing out a lot of unnecessary markup. I'd guess there won't be too much unnecessary "whitespaces" (is this what you mean by unnecessary markup?). But I don't know. Someone could

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-19 Thread Adrian Crum
Oh wait. I misread what you said. You're suggesting zipped pages sent out from the server that the browser can unzip. Gotcha. Great idea. Thanks. Adrian Crum wrote: As I mentioned in another email, I was just making an observation. It's food for thought. The zipped pages browser setting doe

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-19 Thread Adrian Crum
As I mentioned in another email, I was just making an observation. It's food for thought. The zipped pages browser setting doesn't address the fundamental issue I presented: OFBiz servers are pushing out a lot of unnecessary markup. It would be interesting to try out an OFBiz installation whe

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-18 Thread David E. Jones
The best way I've seen to handle this sort of thing is to take advantage of the fact that pretty much all browsers support zipped pages. I haven't set this sort of thing up in a LONG time, but there are probably ways to do it with Tomcat, and definitely ways to do it with the Apache web s

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-18 Thread Adrian Crum
Just for grins, I inserted <#compress> FTL directives in the Party Manager FTL files to see how much smaller the markup would be. Results: Before compress - 45k After compress - 35k 33% less markup. The drawback is, some of the layout seems to depend on some of the FTL whitespace, so the page

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-18 Thread Adrian Crum
Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Adrian, I don't understand what you mean by "OFBiz servers are spewing out unnecessary stuff". Those FTLs with unnecessary whitespaces are probably coded that way (by mistake or otherwise), not generated and spewed by some servers. The point I was making is that a

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-18 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Adrian, I don't understand what you mean by "OFBiz servers are spewing out unnecessary stuff". Those FTLs with unnecessary whitespaces are probably coded that way (by mistake or otherwise), not generated and spewed by some servers. As for indentation, I recall the "best practices" page for co

Re: OFBiz UI work, Plus New Revelations

2007-01-18 Thread Adrian Crum
After spending some time examining the unintentional formatting changes in my patch files, I discovered that my editor automatically strips off unnecessary white space at the end of every line. I can't find a way to shut it off, so I'll have to switch to another IDE. At first I was upset that