I found it tricky to use an automated combiner thingy in that it doesn't know the order of the javascripts to be added to the page.
On Jul 3, 10:46 am, Thijs Houtenbos <th...@thijshoutenbosdesign.nl> wrote: > You make a good point that you put an extra load on the server by > compressing each time (even if only a little because gzip is pretty fast). > But this can be solved by caching the resulting big JS file, whether you do > this with a file cache (my solution) or memcache (should even be more > efficient). I have measured significant speed improvements by caching and > gzipping. And each time i even change a single byte I just refresh. And > besides when you pack the code you just let the client side waste a lot of > CPU with each page load. This wasted CPU will become non-trivial on older > computers and browsers and definitely when your JS code becomes over several > hundred KiB (like Jquery UI). > > When you are done developing and prepare a release you can also just minify > the JS, and let the script add them together and gzip again. This will > improve the compression without any performance hit on the client side (min > + gzip works better than any packer). > > And a last note: minifying or packing the JS is no option when you need to > debug that JS code. :-) > > Regards, > THD > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Rebecca Murphey <rmurp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Having PHP do the gzipping is inefficient, IMO. The PHP has to run > > every time someone requests the file anew; if you compress the files > > as part of the release process, then they are static files that the > > server simply has to serve. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
