Sent by Paul Novitski on 24 January 2006 01:01
At 03:12 PM 1/23/2006, Paul Kahl wrote:
>I'm constantly freaking out about reusability. I'm
>writing my first ASP.Net aps, and .Net code is heavy enough without having
>to load a 50k stylesheet on top of it.
Hmm, if your stylesheet is 50K that could indicate a problem in
itself. I would try to split it out into separate stylesheets for
various pages or sections of the site, or optimize your approach to
styling, or both.
Without seeing your work it's impossible to give specific advice, of
course, but often it's possible to clean up markup & stylesheet by
coding more sparely. Rather than applying ids & classes so many
elements, for example, rely more on each element's ancestry in the
markup to provide the specificity you need. Look for styling rules
that share values in common and see if it makes sense to use a single
rule for a group (a class!) of elements.
It's possible to go too far with this -- trimming file size isn't
worth it if doing so makes the code more difficult for a human to
read and maintain. Scripting languages, after all, exist solely for
us humans; the computers would be better off reading machine language.
If every page of your site has a unique 50K stylesheet, that's a
problem, but if you're using one stylesheet for the entire site
remember that it will be cached after the first download.
Good luck,
Paul
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