# NAME HTML::DeferableCSS - Simplify management of stylesheets in your HTML # VERSION version v0.2.1 # SYNOPSIS ```perl use HTML::DeferableCSS; my $css = HTML::DeferableCSS->new( css_root => '/var/www/css', url_base_path => '/css', inline_max => 512, aliases => { reset => 1, jqui => 'jquery-ui', site => 'style', }, cdn => { jqui => '//cdn.example.com/jquery-ui.min.css', }, ); ... print $css->deferred_link_html( qw[ jqui site ] ); ``` # DESCRIPTION This is an experimental module for generating HTML-snippets for deferable stylesheets. This allows the stylesheets to be loaded asynchronously, allowing the page to be rendered faster. Ideally, this would be a simple matter of changing stylesheet links to something like ``` ``` but this is not well supported by all web browsers. So a web page needs some JavaScript to handle this, as well as a `noscript` block as a fallback. This module allows you to simplify the management of stylesheets for a web application, from development to production by - declaring all stylesheets used by your web application; - specifying remote aliases for stylesheets, e.g. from a CDN; - enable or disable the use of minified stylesheets; - switch between local copies of stylesheets or CDN versions; - automatically inline small stylesheets; - use deferred-loading stylesheets, which requires embedding JavaScript code as a workaround for web browsers that do not support these natively. # ATTRIBUTES ## aliases This is a required hash reference of names and their relative filenames to ["css\_root"](#css_root). It is recommended that the `.css` and `.min.css` suffixes be omitted. If the name is the same as the filename (without the extension) than you can simply use `1`. (Likewise, an empty string or `0` disables the alias: ```perl my $css = HTML::DeferableCSS->new( aliases => { reset => 1, gone => 0, # using "gone" will throw an error one => "1.css", # } ... ); ``` If all names are the same as their filenames, then an array reference can be used: ```perl my $css = HTML::DeferableCSS->new( aliases => [ qw( foo bar } ], ... ); ``` Absolute paths cannot be used. You may specify URLs instead of files, but this is not recommended, except for cases when the files are not available locally. ## css\_root This is the required root directory where all stylesheets can be found. ## url\_base\_path This is the URL prefix for stylesheets. It can be a full URL prefix. ## prefer\_min If true (default), then a file with the `.min.css` suffix will be preferred, if it exists in the same directory. Note that this does not do any minification. You will need separate tools for that. ## css\_files This is a hash reference used internally to translate ["aliases"](#aliases) into the actual files or URLs. If files cannot be found, then it will throw an error, so calling this attribute in void context can be used to check for any errors: ``` eval { $css->css_files } or die "$@"; ``` ## cdn\_links This is a hash reference of ["aliases"](#aliases) to URLs. (Only one URL per alias is supported.) When ["use\_cdn\_links"](#use_cdn_links) is true, then these URLs will be used instead of local versions. ## has\_cdn\_links This is true when there are ["cdn\_links"](#cdn_links). ## use\_cdn\_links When true, this will prefer CDN URLs instead of local files. ## inline\_max This specifies the maximum size of an file to inline. Local files under the size will be inlined using the ["link\_or\_inline\_html"](#link_or_inline_html) or ["deferred\_link\_html"](#deferred_link_html) methods. Setting this to 0 disables the use of inline links, unless ["inline\_html"](#inline_html) is called explicitly. ## defer\_css True by default. This is used by ["deferred\_link\_html"](#deferred_link_html) to determine whether to emit code for deferred stylesheets. ## include\_noscript When true, a `noscript` element will be included with non-deffered links. This defaults to the same value as ["defer\_css"](#defer_css). ## preload\_script This is the pathname of the `cssrelpreload.js` file that will be embedded in the resulting code. You do not need to modify this unless you want to use a different script from the one included with this module. ## link\_template This is a code reference for a subroutine that returns a stylesheet link. ## preload\_template This is a code reference for a subroutine that returns a stylesheet preload link. ## asset\_id This is an optional static asset id to append to local links. It may refer to a version number or commit-id, for example. This is useful to ensure that changes to stylesheets are picked up by web browsers that would otherwise use cached copies of older versions of files. ## has\_asset\_id True if there is an ["asset\_id"](#asset_id). # METHODS ## href ```perl my $href = $css->href( $alias ); ``` This returns this URL for an alias. ## link\_html ```perl my $html = $css->link_html( $alias ); ``` This returns the link HTML markup for the stylesheet referred to by `$alias`. ## inline\_html ```perl my $html = $css->inline_html( $alias ); ``` This returns an embedded stylesheet referred to by `$alias`. ## link\_or\_inline\_html ```perl my $html = $css->link_or_inline_html( @aliases ); ``` This returns either the link HTML markup, or the embedded stylesheet, if the file size is not greater than ["inline\_max"](#inline_max). Note that a stylesheet will be inlined, even if there is are ["cdn\_links"](#cdn_links). ## deferred\_link\_html ```perl my $html = $css->deferred_link_html( @aliases ); ``` This returns the HTML markup for the stylesheets specified by ["aliases"](#aliases), as appropriate for each stylesheet. If the stylesheets are not greater than ["inline\_max"](#inline_max), then it will embed them. Otherwise it will return the appropriate markup, depending on ["defer\_css"](#defer_css). # KNOWN ISSUES ## XHTML Support This module is written for HTML5. It does not support XHTML self-closing elements or embedding styles and scripts in CDATA sections. ## Encoding All files are embedded as raw files. No URL encoding is done on the HTML links or ["asset\_id"](#asset_id). ## It's spelled "Deferrable" It's also spelled "Deferable". # SOURCE The development version is on github at [https://github.com/robrwo/HTML-DeferableCSS](https://github.com/robrwo/HTML-DeferableCSS) and may be cloned from [git://github.com/robrwo/HTML-DeferableCSS.git](git://github.com/robrwo/HTML-DeferableCSS.git) # BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website [https://github.com/robrwo/HTML-DeferableCSS/issues](https://github.com/robrwo/HTML-DeferableCSS/issues) When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. # AUTHOR Robert Rothenberg `reset.css` comes from [http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/](http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/). `cssrelpreload.js` comes from [https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS/](https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS/). # COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by Robert Rothenberg. This is free software, licensed under: ``` The MIT (X11) License ```