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$ compass compile --environment production && compass compile

Afterwards you will have both the minified and non-minified versions in your output folder. Note that compass clean will not clean up your minified files.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

	# config.ru for Pow + Wordpress, based on http://stuff-things.net/2011/05/16/legacy-development-with-pow/
	# added hackery to work around wordpress issues - Patrick Anderson ([email protected])
	# added rubygems, replaced script_path with script from path_parts, added to_return to fix return error - Paul Cook
	# clearly this could be cleaner, but it does work
	# added rewrite rule for WordPress Multi Site - Per Soderlind (see also http://soderlind.no/archives/2012/12/02/wordpress-and-pow/)

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'rack'
	require 'rack-legacy'
	require 'rack-rewrite'

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Colours picked from https://robinpowered.com/blog/best-practice-system-for-organizing-and-tagging-github-issues/

	###
	# Label definitions
	###
	declare -A LABELS

	# Platform