[OFBIZ-642] Make OFBiz more dial-up friendly

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Trunk
• Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
• Reporter: Adrian Crum
• Created: 22/Jan/07 19:06
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 13/Jul/07 13:51

Description

Reduce OFBiz's HTML output so that pages load faster on dial-up lines.

Three things can be done to achieve that goal:

1. Reduce HTML code through better use of styles (currently in progress).

2. Eliminate the language selection code that is sent out with every page request. Intead of having a selection box in the header, just display the currently selected language and provide a link to change it. Clicking on the link could produce a language selection popup window - similar to the current lookup windows.

3. Freemarker has the <#compress></#compress> directives which eliminate unnecessary HTML white space. A recent test showed the directives can yield a 33% reduction in markup. Problem is, that only works if the directive is placed in every FTL file. There needs to be a way to make that a global setting in Freemarker, so that ALL markup is reduced - without any additional FTL coding. I looked around the Freemarker website for a way to do that, but couldn't find anything.

Issue Links

• depends upon: OFBIZ-1126 Quirky Behavior In New Time Zone Selection Box
• depends upon: OFBIZ-1117 Improved Time Zone Support