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Optimization of several CSS and JS files

What with the fact that optimising Sylvester for speed is causing its brief, legible internals to balloon into reams of hard-coded arrays and unrolled loops, and the fact the fact that Prototype’s latest release has put on a few extra chins (1.5.1 is 97kb compared to 1.5.0’s 70kb), I thought it was about time I figured out how to serve my JavaScript like a grown-up. Most of what’s written online seems to be focused on specific platforms (PHP, mostly) and I thought something a little more generally useful was needed.

Проблема уменьшения CSS-файлов в размере действительно актуальна. В статье приведено исследование конкретно для такой оптимизации

The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We’ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.

@import has a negative impact on web page performance.

On further investigation, I’m not so sure that it’s worth the time to make CSS selectors more efficient. I’ll go even farther and say I don’t think anyone would notice if we woke up tomorrow and every web page’s CSS selectors were magically optimized.