Products.ResourceRegistries-2.2.13-1.lbn25.noarch

A registry for linked Stylesheet files and Javascripts.

This registry is mainly aimed at solving the following usecases:

• Enable product authors to register stylesheets with their product installers without having to resort to override either header.pt or ploneCustom.css creating potential conflicts with other products.
• Enable more componentialization of the stylesheets provided with Plone (and other products) without having to increase the number of http requests for a Plone page.
• Enable condition checking on stylesheets. Great for variable look-and-feel for groups/roles/folders/departments/content-types/etc
• Enable inline dynamic stylesheets. For those style rules that should vary for each request. Mainly used for things like header-bar- backgroundimages, department colors etc.
• Enable developers to activate/deactivate their styles in a simpler way
• Enable compression to safe bandwidth and download time

If several stylesheets listed directly after each other in the registry have the same parameters and expression, they will be concatenated into a larger, composite, stylesheet on rendering. - This can be useful for splitting stylesheets into smaller components for overrideing, while preserving cacheability and minimising the number of http-requests to Plone.

This tool was started at the excellent SnowSprint 2005 - Organised by Telesis in the Austrian Alps. Thanks, Jodok! :)