id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
3372	Consolidated JavaScript/CSS Plugin API	robertaccettura	anonymous	"WordPress plugins are great, they really are.  One problem with them is they often include their own styles and scripts.  The problem here is that several plugins with useful features mean a browser needs to download 10+ javascripts and stylesheets.  This isn't good for page load.  It's awful.  See:
http://www.die.net/musings/page_load_time/

My suggestion would be an API that allows all plugin/css to be included in 1 PHP generated CSS and Javascript.  This would drastically consolidate requests.  For performance reasons it should ideally be cached so that it's only regenerated when a plugin is loaded/reloaded.

This is becoming a bigger issue as plugins become more common and useful.  I hope a solution is found that gives plugin authors the freedom they need, and blog owners the performance they want, without having to sacrifice features.  I think channeling all the requests into 1 JS and 1 CSS file would achieve that.  They could use a numerical ranking system to calculate position in the file (to avoid conflicts) similar to how (iirc) filter work."	feature request	reopened	lowest	Future Release	JavaScript	2.1	normal		needs-patch dev-feedback	djr dkikizas@… westonruter voyagerfan5761+wptrac@… rspindel abischof azizur dangayle@… stephen@… wvega CaptainN jason.matthew.rhodes@… retlehs