Suggestion maybe worth a thought

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:10 pm

Hey guys well after i loaded up an RN test site to allow me to look into what changes are needed for anything i code to fit into RN i took a look in the header.php of the site root.

Well my suggestion is to save webmasters a fraction of the bandwidth a month and speed up load times that little bit only call files for jquery as they are needed and same for the nukeSEO header includes

for example the original code im speaking of

Code:




   include_once 'includes/jquery/jquery.php';


   include_once 'includes/tabcontent/tabcontent.php';


   include_once 'includes/ajaxtabs/ajaxtabs.php';


   include_once 'includes/custom_files/nukeSEO/nukePIEhdr.php';


   include_once 'includes/custom_files/nukeSEO/nukeFEEDhdr.php';

now for my suggestion

Code:




   if(defined('USE_JQUERY'){   


   include_once 'includes/jquery/jquery.php';


   }


   if(defined('TABBED_CONTENT'){


   include_once 'includes/tabcontent/tabcontent.php';


   }


   if(defined('AJAX_TABS'){


   include_once 'includes/ajaxtabs/ajaxtabs.php';


   }


   if(defined('NUKEPIE'){


   include_once 'includes/custom_files/nukeSEO/nukePIEhdr.php';


   }


   if(defined('NUKE_FEED'){


   include_once 'includes/custom_files/nukeSEO/nukeFEEDhdr.php';


   }

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

Hi gazj,

The included files already have logic that controls the inclusion of additional files, but the approach you suggested would prevent even those files from being loaded. I'll look into moving the logic into the eader (or replacing it with calls to a new function in 2.4 for loading JS and CSS that might even be more efficient).

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:10 am

as far as i can tell those files are used to determine when those aspects should be loaded.... so it's kinda necessary to include them always Smile

including php files uses bandwidth? isnt that all done on the server side?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:35 am

yes , it's done server side.

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:32 pm

i got an other suggestion tonight i have been playing around gzipping my css and for the multiple css includes from my jquery scripts i have adapted the script i use to scan and then include the css to turn it into php gzip it then print the multiple css/php files into one single css file and i am not kidding it works and also speeds up the site no end

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:13 am

Believe me, CSS and JS compression has been a topic we've discussed internally. It may not be possible for our 2.40.00 release because we're in code freeze right now trying to get it released. However, I think we all agree that tweaks can be made in this area to improve upon bandwidth and speed.

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:25 am

well when its released ill be sure to grab a copy and fiddle about trying afew tricks and post on here anything i find to work well then its upto you guys what you do with my findings

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:43 am

We've made some nice structural changes that impact loading JS and CSS into an array, then adding to the HEAD section (first CSS, then JS). The next step (already planned for a future - probably the next after 2.4 - release) is to use php-minify to combine, minify, possibly gzip and cache into 1 CSS and 1 JS. My research on gzip indicates that the benefits are not necessarily assured, especially with a multitude of browser versions.

Also, we're looking into optionally using a CDN for jquery.js.

I wanted to include that in this release, but with nukeSEO DH, we just didn't have time to properly test this and felt that the initial benefits of simplifying and standardizing the loading of CSS and JS were enough for one release.

Given your interest in this, I'd be happy to work with you to develop, test and implement this.

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:36 am

im working on an array system to load css and js files from a dir for each the js and css files its basicly an improvment on my javaadder mod im not that clever at arrays well not yet anyways if your still intrested in joining up to try and tackle this then just head over to my site n we can chat on the im chat i use

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:41 am

Over the weekend, I'll send you an advance copy of what we did for 2.4 so you can see what's coming. In the mean time, what else are you interested in? Smile

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:48 pm

i got the array for js and css in my <head> if you want a look let me know ill send you the files

i use a function to form the array on the selected dir and file type it only selects files with the passed file type in the passed dir

and sure ill take a look at the advanced copy

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:10 pm

kguse i have made an example of the way i use arrays to include js and css files i wont post the link public get in touch and i will give you the link to the files

the code for this is small i counted the lines its 26 lines of code im guessing it can be made to be more advanced and maybe more functional but for what i want it for it does the job