What does it matter if you are allowing your css to cache in the user's browser?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:19 PM, rowlando <n...@rowlando.com> wrote: > > I'm a front-end developer rather than a back-end dev so this might explain my > silly questions. "80% of the end-user response time is spent on the > front-end", so says the YUI performance blog. Anything that can be done on > the front-end to aid better performance is simply good practice. > > The reason that I want to concatenate CSS into a single file is for > performance reasons. Reducing HTTP requests is one of the best ways to speed > up your website. > > http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#num_http > > Using the @import statement does not concatenate the files. The use of > @import is actually worse, from a performance perspective, than many <link> > tags because files are downloaded sequentially rather than in parallel. Read > Steve Souders blog for more info. > > http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/09/dont-use-import/ > > > Curtis Garman wrote: >> >> Why does it all need to be the same physical file? I would use the css >> import statement to import your global.css as shown below and then >> link the global.css file to your pages (as you mentioned)...this will >> give you ability to seperate your css but avoid the bother with the >> jsp includes. >> >> @import url(../global/i_base.css); >> @import url(../global/i_header.css); >> @import url(../global/i_footer.css); >> @import url(../global/i_layout.css); >> @import url(../global/i_button.css); >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-use-Includes-in-CSS-files-tp26024235p26032674.html > Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Curtis Garman Web Programmer Heartland Community College --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
