Document how to use BundleCache with CDN

It's about creating smarter bundles.

It's a whole different category of optimization, it doesn't make CDN integration obsolete, nor is it inferior to it. It just works on a different level.

Depending on your site, it can also improve the page loading performance of your site *tremendously*.

I will document the relation between this module and sf_cache better :)

Also applies to the new version. Upping the version.

Wow, neat. I never saw that module until I happened upon this issue.

Support File Cache seems to be a more intelligent way to bundle your CSS. Right now, CSS optimization in Drupal 6 is a one-size-fits-all deal. You just get the logic it gives you. This seems to allow you to rebundle CSS in different or interesting ways that could also benefit performance. The idea behind bundling of CSS files is to reduce the number of HTTP requests needed to load your page. If you have 20 CSS files, it may require 20 different HTTP connections to get them all. Aggregating 20 CSS files into 1 could also reduce your HTTP connections from 20 to 1. Whether or not you are serving up 20 CSS files or 1 CSS file, the CDN integration module doesn't really care - it will serve up whatever you need it to. To the end browser it just improves the load time and connections significantly if you are bundling up your CSS and optimizing appropriately.

Thanks for the link, I'm going to give Support File Cache a try as well.

Heh, thanks for the explanation I guess :P Your explanation will become part of the documentation I plan to write.

Support File Cache has now been renamed to BundleCache, from the project page of Support File Cache:

Initial development of this module was performed by kkaefer, this was sponsored by NowPublic.

This module has now been renamed to Bundlecache and maintenance is now done by Wim Leers (see #962178: Rename/migrate to Bundlecache and provide a stable D6 release.).

So please, go take a look at the Bundlecache module!

And as you can read, I've become the new maintainer. Over time, I will make BundleCache nicely integrated with the CDN module.

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