There's a lot of FUD in this comment. "Could be inefficient", "some cases impossible to cache", "notoriously slow". In particular, on the notoriously slow point, a while back I went looking for the primary source of that, because frankly, I'm sceptical. I couldn't find anything beyond the point that Jasmin makes, that slowness is caused by the download chaining. Do you have any measured data to show that @import is, in itself, slow?
As for separate files versus server-side bundling, yes that's a long standing question without a single correct answer, since there's always a trade-off on one side or the other. Without measuring real world usage for each particular site, I doubt it's possible to know which approach works out best per site.
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A fair and Excellent question, If I speak in absolutes people tend to ask me for data pertaining to my claim, claims I have hear or seen before. I am indeed a user of CSS imports and I have built a preference based on what I have seen. I'm out in the forest with family not really caring what I said. Look it up if you care ☺️
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There's a lot of FUD in this comment. "Could be inefficient", "some cases impossible to cache", "notoriously slow". In particular, on the notoriously slow point, a while back I went looking for the primary source of that, because frankly, I'm sceptical. I couldn't find anything beyond the point that Jasmin makes, that slowness is caused by the download chaining. Do you have any measured data to show that
@importis, in itself, slow?As for separate files versus server-side bundling, yes that's a long standing question without a single correct answer, since there's always a trade-off on one side or the other. Without measuring real world usage for each particular site, I doubt it's possible to know which approach works out best per site.
A fair and Excellent question, If I speak in absolutes people tend to ask me for data pertaining to my claim, claims I have hear or seen before. I am indeed a user of CSS imports and I have built a preference based on what I have seen. I'm out in the forest with family not really caring what I said. Look it up if you care ☺️