Conk Updated to Drupal 5.0RC1
I've updated The Conk to the latest 5.0 version, 5.0 RC1. The most interesting new feature is the CSS Preprocessor. This merges all of the 15+ CSS files that a typical Drupal page load incurs into a single packed file. So not only is the overall transfer size reduced, but there is considerable less HTTP traffic and the result is significantly faster page load times.
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CSS files for the editor
If you can pipe the CSS files for the FCK editor, that'd be another nice improvement for people (like myself :( ) on a connection with a lot of latency. It currently loads up 9 CSS files!
What are you hosting this on?
RickDT
FCKEditor
FCKEditor is a 3rd party module and it might be doing its own thing for CSS files.
The CSS caching mechanism was added almost at the last moment for Drupal 5, so FCKEditor might need to be modified to work with the new caching scheme. The good news is that once you have all of the FCKing files in your browser cache, it is pretty speedy.
As for the hosting, I am running this site out of my home, using a miserably slow 256kbps upstream connection.
A big win for themeing
This will also make themeing a Drupal site a lot easier since you can now view a single .css file to figure out how and why things are being styled a certain way. Of course on the server side development you still have to deal with many .css files a times. I'm doing my first 5.0 site right now and it is quite a bit nicer then then 4.7 under the covers.