Created by: jgehrcke
The bootstrap-responsive.css from Bootstrap 2.3 contains several percentage numbers with unnecessarily high precision, such as
width:31.570740134569924%There are 148 of those:
$ grep -Hno '\.[0-9]\{3,\}%' bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.css | wc -l
148By rounding all percentages in bootstrap-responsive.min.css to at maximum two digits after the decimal point, the size of the file is reduced by 11 %.
Regarding a percentage number, a mantissa length of two means that the absolute length given by that relative value is defined with a precision of the 10000th part of the absolute reference length. This is more than enough as long as screens do not have significantly more than 10000 pixels in either dimension.
I've created the patch in a rather ignorant fashion: added round(number, 2) function calls until all of these long numbers disappeared. I actually have never dealt with LESS and Bootstrap LESS files before, so this patch is required to be reviewed carefully.
I'm not sure if there will be another 2.X (bugfix) release, so maybe this patch does not make sense with respect to 2.X at all. I'll have a look if there is the same situation with Bootstrap 3.