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Low-Cal Vanilla 0.5.2

Warning! This community-contributed addon has not been tested or code-reviewed. Use at your own risk.

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Version
0.5.2 
Released
Downloads
2,879

Requirements

Vanilla
Vanilla 1

Latest Versions

Version Released
0.5.2August 2007
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This addon is a plugin. You need to extract it to your /plugins folder to install it.
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Optimize page load (on the client side) by reducing the number of requests and by compressing the request. The compression is made by your web server; the directive for Apache 1.3 and 2+ are available in package (LowCalVanilla/htaccess/.htaccess). If you are updating to version 0.5.0, read the documentation and your main .htaccess before updating the add-on

Require Vanilla 1.1.3+

Check the performance gains

How to add your extension scripts to the packer:

// Check the Low-Cal Vanilla is installed
if (!empty($Configuration['LOWCALVANILLA_TOOLS_PATH'])) {
// Include Low-Cal Vanilla tools.
// Important: Use require_once or include_once to not load it again if it is already done.
require_once($Configuration['LOWCALVANILLA_TOOLS_PATH']);

// Add your script
LowCalVanilla_AddScript($Context, $Head, 'extensions/MyExtension/script.js');

// Add a library
// Use the position argument (300 by default) to be sure it will be added first
LowCalVanilla_AddScript($Context, $Head, 'extensions/MyExtension/jQuery-min.js', 100);
} else {
$Head->AddScript('extensions/MyExtension/jQuery-min.js');
$Head->AddScript('extensions/MyExtension/script.js');
}


You do not need to use any special methode to add prototype or any other core files to the packer!!!

Change log:

  • 0.4.3:

    • Fix typo.

  • 0.4.2:

    • Fix xhtml compliant issue with the packer js src attribute (thanks to Halo_12).

  • 0.4.1:

    • Fix a bug in the CleanUp Control - Only clean-up if the extension is not loaded.

  • 0.4.0:

    • Add a dynamic packer.

  • 0.3.6.a (archive):

    • Restrictive rewrite rules;
    • Rebuilt js and css files with YUIcompressor-2.2.3.

  • 0.3.5.a:

    • Update css files for Vanilla 1.1.3.

  • 0.3.5:

    • Fix bug in geting some gz content.

  • 0.3.4:

    • Repacked Scriptaculous (the code that check that prototype is loaded were missing).

  • 0.3.3:

    • Compact Head::Scripts array after removing some of it element.

  • 0.3.3:

    • Compact Head::Scripts array after removing some of it element.

  • 0.3.2:

    • Pack the 4 core js files into one.

  • 0.3.1:

    • Add css file support;
    • Fix Content-Encoding bug (was set even no gzip file were available).

  • 0.3.0:

    • Redirect request to js files to a compressed version (require mod rewrite).

  • 0.2.1:

    • Won't compress the page for IE6 in any case;
    • Simplify code (thanks to AlexL).

  • 0.2.0:

    • Will not compress the pages for IE5.5 (all version), IE6 and IE6.0 sp1.

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