Section: New Software and Platforms

CSS Analyzer

Participants : Pierre Genevès, Nabil Layaïda, Marti Bosch Padros.

This software now consists in two distinct prototypes: two static analyzers (with a different purpose) that share a common compiler for CSS. The first prototype is used for bug detection and verification of a cascading style sheet (CSS) file. It involves a compiler for CSS rules (and in particular selectors) into logical formulas, adapted for the semantics of CSS (see the initial WWW’12 paper). The second prototype performs automated refactoring for size reduction of CSS style sheets. It reuses the first compiler and the logical solver for detecting which rules can be refactored and how. It implements various optimisation techniques (like early pruning), for the purpose of dealing with large-size real CSS files. This prototype reduces the size of CSS files found in the most popular websites (such as CNN, facebook, Google Sites, Apple, etc.) by up to 30% while preserving their semantics [13] .