> Convention dictates that CSS files are served with the .css extension

That's very true.

But then again, at one point in web history, all web pages were served
with either a .html or a .htm extension.

?

Steve.

On 13 October 2011 16:34, Toby O'Rourke <toby.orou...@gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
> I guess it is just a consistency thing. Convention dictates that CSS files 
> are served with the .css extension, why break that convention if we don't 
> have to?
> ________________________________________
> From: Howard Lewis Ship [hls...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 12 October 2011 22:08
> To: Tapestry users
> Subject: Re: Compiled CSS
>
> Why is this needed?  The file extension is not very important, but the
> MIME type will be correct either way, and that should be all the
> browser cares about.  They'll ask for a "foo.less" file and will be
> sent a stream of CSS, with a matching content-type header.
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Denis Stepanov
> <denis.stepa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I understand it correctly, right now resources accesses with 
>> ResourceTransformer will have same url as the source.
>>
>> It would be nice to have somekind of transform resources mapping, lets say 
>> we want to transform less file or files to css:
>>
>> virtualTransformResource("/css/bootstrap.css", "/less/bootstrap.less") - 
>> virtual resource "/css/bootstrap.css" will be resource 
>> "/less/bootstrap.less" transformed using ResourceTransformer, mimetypes are 
>> extracted from file names.
>>
>> Transforming all files from specified context:
>>
>> virtualTransformContext( "/css/", "/less/", "text/css", "text/less") - with 
>> additional from/to mimetypes to recognize what kind of files need to be 
>> transformed.
>>
>> Rewriting could be another solution for this but not so friendly.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> On 12.10.2011, at 0:03, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
>>
>>> Just checked in some changes as discussed below; not in a preview release 
>>> yet.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
>>> <thiag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:12 -0300, Cezary Biernacki <cezary...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>> I like that proposition. Is it possible to change ResourceTransformer and
>>>>> include  ResourceDependencies in Tapestry 5.3.* ?
>>>>
>>>> Tapestry 5.3 is still a beta, so this possibility exists (but don't 
>>>> consider
>>>> this a promise). Please file a JIRA about it.
>>>>
>>>> --
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