Last modified: 2014-06-02 11:30:25 UTC
1) Wikimedia wikis{{which}} have{{citation needed}} a large{{vague}} number of CSS rules for external links (icons); 2) this is a problem{{vague}}, also for performance.{{citation needed}} Hoo (or another shell user), can you please help us verify (1) by running [[wikitech:mwgrep]]? "mwgrep external" may be enough; if it's too noisy, I guess [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] can give suggestions as well. Discussing (2) is out of scope for this bug: go to bug 54604 instead for that.
Created attachment 15066 [details] Output of: mwgrep external --max-results 1000 | grep '.css$'
(In reply to Nemo from comment #0) > 1) Wikimedia wikis{{which}} have{{citation needed}} a large{{vague}} number > of CSS rules for external links (icons); > 2) this is a problem{{vague}}, also for performance.{{citation needed}} > > Hoo (or another shell user), can you please help us verify (1) by running > [[wikitech:mwgrep]]? "mwgrep external" may be enough; if it's too noisy, I > guess [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] can give suggestions as well. > > Discussing (2) is out of scope for this bug: go to bug 54604 instead for > that. My reading of the other bug is a complaint about css rules in core mediawiki skin files, not css rules in wiki css.
(In reply to Bawolff (Brian Wolff) from comment #2) > My reading of the other bug is a complaint about css rules in core mediawiki > skin files, not css rules in wiki css. Sure, that's why I filed a separate one for Wikimedia wikis. :) Or are you saying that such CSS rules are more efficient when placed in wiki CSS?
(In reply to Nemo from comment #3) > (In reply to Bawolff (Brian Wolff) from comment #2) > > My reading of the other bug is a complaint about css rules in core mediawiki > > skin files, not css rules in wiki css. > > Sure, that's why I filed a separate one for Wikimedia wikis. :) Or are you > saying that such CSS rules are more efficient when placed in wiki CSS? Oh. Sorry I misunderstood why you were filing this. Carry on. :) (I take no position on the css link rule thing. I honestly have no idea. Somebody should probably profile it (is there profiling tools for css? I dont even know). Premature optimization is the root of all evil and all that)
(In reply to Marius Hoch from comment #1) > Created attachment 15066 [details] > Output of: mwgrep external --max-results 1000 | grep '.css$' Oh well, that's a juniper thicket in any case (we'd say in Italian); I sent them all a notice and they'll decide what to do if anything. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/massmessage&dir=prev&offset=20140408175303&limit=1&type=massmessage&user= Now let's listen. :)
