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Ideally, we should be able to specify which page handles to apply configuration generated css applies to, and the ability to implement multiple stylesheets.

For example, if generated CSS is to be used on the catalog_product_view handle, then that should be the only place that CSS is loaded.

I'd propose changing Meanbee_ConfigPoweredCss_Block_Css to inherit from Mage_Core_Block_Text_List and for child blocks to be implemented based on xml configuration where you can also specify what handles should be applied. i.e.

<config>
....
<default>
    <meanbee_configurationpoweredcss>
        <css_blocks>
            <default_css>
                <block_type>namespace_module/config_css_default</block_type>
                <handles>default</handles>
            </default_css>
            <products_css>
                <block_type>namespace_module/config_css_products</block_type>
                <handles>catalog_product_list,catalog_product_view</handles>
            </products_css>
        </css_blocks>
    </meanbee_configurationpoweredcss>
</default>
</config>

Thoughts?

I'm running into a problem in a topology with one admin server and two front end servers. With the extension, in its current form, I run into a problem trying to get the published file pushed out to the front end servers. The publish button exists and is executed on the admin server causing the file to be generated on the admin server, in the skin/ directory. The skin directory isn't something that has generated content and so is typically committed to the repository or, at the very least, isn't shared across multiple servers. Directories that are typically shared are media/ and var/.

I propose the following solutions:

• Generate the CSS file when requested (if the code notices that the file isn't there, then generate it) and keep the file in the skin directory. This means the file would be generated three times in the example, once on every server.
• Move the generated files to the media/ directory so that they can be shared across all of the machines. The file would only be written once.

Thoughts?