Does this idea hot ?

[xrvel]

I plan to develop a website where a member (web developers) can register, and compress their CSS online.
So that if he has http://example.com (for example), and his original page in his index page contains this code :

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" />

He can replace it with some unique link (which is generated by my script)

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://myweb.com/some-unique-css.css" />

And it (http://myweb.com/some-unique-css.css) will return the same CSS content as the compressed version of the original one (http://example.com/css/main.css)

Everytime he modifies his "http://example.com/css/main.css", the "http://myweb.com/some-unique-css.css" will be automatically updated with the new content.

The members are web developers only since the web only offers CSS compression.

I've made about 20% of the code, but i think i will need to do some research first whether my idea hot, so-so, or not before i continue to code

Any opinion is appreciated :tu:

(this is a private poll )

 

[nasaboy007]

how are you planning on compressing it? Just take out whitespace?

As far as I can tell, CSS is pretty fast to be able to notice a significant difference in speed via compression unless it's a HUGE (and i mean huge) file.

i honestly can't see the benefit of it, because that would require the user to call an external file (which will be limited by your upload speed and their download speed rather than just calling it locally) so the speed saved via compression would be lost to calling it externally and it also would make using an SSL certificate a pain ("OMG INSECURE ITEMS, CONTINUE??!?!").

 

[xrvel]

Yes i doubt the "benefit" recently In most of my test cases the compression result is only about 60-90%.
I still have no idea for the SSL. Thank you for your opinion and the SSL input