[aur-dev] Some optimization patches

elij elij.mx at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 17:46:05 EDT 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, elij <elij.mx at gmail.com> wrote:
> *sigh*
> Forgot to change the setting for format-patch and resent the same patches.
> Trying to send these patches one final time, using 'inline' at
> Aaron's suggestion. Here goes.
>
> ---
>
> My apologies for splitting these changes into so many patches, but
> apparently the Arch mailman instance will not let anything larger
> than 40k though (and I got feedback that there is something amiss
> regarding the mailman setup -- this is here nor there though).
>
> These patches are mostly optimizations for content delivery.
> - merge css into fewer files to reduce number of files. this makes for faster
>  end user delivery as there are fewer http requests (fewer tcp connections,
>  whether the response is 200/ok or 304/not-modified).
> - created minimized versions of css. this reduced css size by 3.3K (24%) the
>  originals are retained for ease of editing and reference
> - split out ie6 css into a separate file, and use 'conditional stylesheet
>  inclusion' so that only ie6 fetches that stylesheet.
> - optimize logo png file -- this was a 22% (1K)

Hooray! This time it worked.


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