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#15433 Please add file type LESS (leaner CSS) to default file types

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Latest post by user70401 on Friday, 15 March 2013 04:16 CDT

user70401

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 3.0.3
PHP version: 5.4
MySQL version: 5.0
Host: 1und1
Admin Tools version: 2.5.2

Description of my issue:

Please add the file type LESS to the default list of allowed file types for front- and back-end directories. 

I recently ran into the problem where ThemeMagic, from JoomlaArt, was not rendering the styles. It finally dawned on my that I generated an .htaccess file using the maker utility in Admin Tools. Sure enough, adding the LESS file type to the existing lists solved the problem with the functionality of the utility. 

Thank you, 

Brandon

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

LESS files are better compiled off-line or server-side to CSS. Why? Because visitors without Javascript will see an unstyled, "broken" site if you rely on client-side LESS compilation. That's why .less is not in the allowed file types but, as you said, you can add it if you want to.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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user70401

Ok. Thanks for the quick reply.

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