point taken! :)
On Oct 15, 2:25 pm, "Jeffrey Kretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can understand your concern, however it isn't misleading if you understand
> the technology of gzip and http requests.
>
> If I might be so bold, the actual problem was seeing the word "Gzipped" and
> not understanding it.
>
> Try reading this excellent article on the subject:
>
> http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/08/13/
>
> JK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>
> Behalf Of Alex Weber
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:31 AM
> To: jQuery Development
> Subject: [jquery-dev] Re: minified + gzipped = 15kb ??? front page must have
> a typo...
>
> Fair enough, its still misleading though!
> I know i'm being pedantic but even so, it says 15K somewhere and when
> you click download its 54K
> I don't really care! lol 50K is great for me, I just think for the
> average person this kind of advertising/specing is confusing! :)
>
> Quoted from jQuery Home:
> ===
> Grab the latest version!
> Choose your compression level:
> - jquery-1.2.6.min.js Production (15kb, Minified and Gzipped)
> - jquery-1.2.6.js Development (94kb, Uncompressed Code)
> ===
>
> Quoted from Download Home (Google Code):
> ===
> - jquery-1.2.6.min.js jQuery 1.2.6 (Minified) 54.5 KB
> - jquery-1.2.6.js jQuery 1.2.6 97.8 KB
> ===
>
> On Oct 15, 10:52 am, "Richard D. Worth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > gzipping is done by the server and un-done by the client. By the time you
> > see the file (and its size), it is no longer gzipped, thus, larger. The
> > point is to minimize size of transfer, and that is accomplished. If you
> take
> > the same file and host it on a server, with the server configured to serve
> > the file using gzip compression, the transfer size of the file on a
> > production site (and thus the load time addition to the page) will be
> 15kb.
>
> > - Richard
>
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Alex Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > or if not the download link is bloated... =P
> > > just a heads up
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