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Vanilla Packer 0.4.beta.5

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0.4.beta.5 
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Vanilla
Vanilla 1

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Version Released
0.4.beta.5March 2007
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This addon is a plugin. You need to extract it to your /plugins folder to install it.
imagePatch for Vanilla 1.1 that automatically merge and minify CSS and JavaScript files.

Vanilla is a plain forum engine. Each functionality is added by a plug-in, and each plug-in can add his own JavaScript and CSS files.

All these files should be merged to reduce the number of http requests and make the page load faster.

Inspired by the CSS/JS merging script of Ed Eliot, this patch allows Vanilla to do it automatically. It also can use JSMin, by Douglas Crockford (and David Holmes for the php version), and the zlib library (when available) to reduce the size of the file(s).

Also, if any changes are made to your CSS and JS file, the browser will download the new version instead of waiting for the expiration date to update its cache. No more, broken functionalities because of an outdated js file :-)

TODO:
  • Allow admin to reset the server cache
  • Force browser cache to refresh when the patch is updated or when the server cache is reseted
  • Allow extension author to create a css file alternative for the packer(e.g.: with $Head->AddStyleSheet('extensions/myExtension/style.css'), the packer would try to packer extensions/myExtension/style.css.packer if it exist)

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