Tagged ‘minified’

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  The Unavoidables: Don’t Make Me Download a Lot of Crap; or, Sometimes You Just Deserve an F From YSlow, You Shameless Self-Promoter

  Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

  In all seriousness, however, Yahoo! recommends some (semi-doable) solutions. One idea is to combine all your CSS background images into one enormously fat image, and then use background-position to display portions of that image in different visual areas of the page.

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  Nobody Wants to See Your Whitespace: Minify CSS and Javascript using Yahoo!’s UI Compressor

  Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

  Beating rule #10 is easy. We want to serve CSS and Javascript that has been minified (and obfuscated, if you please) to our readers, because that's less overhead for them to download. We also want to do it without screwing up our code, so I recommend using Yahoo!'s UI Compressor.