Thanks for sharing this. Use the minified version instead of the packed
version for even better file size savings. :)
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Brandon Aaron
On 8/15/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, all!
>
> i'm working on re-designing the web site for my mother's company,
> which was horribly neglected/abused by the previous webmaster, and i
> came across an interesting problem...
>
> A part of the refactoring is to use jQuery for parts of the site.
> However, since all of the pages use the same site layout template
> (which includes the headers/script tags) yet most of the site won't
> actually use the JS features, i wanted to make the jQ download as tiny
> as possible.
>
> Unfortunately, i don't have admin rights on my server so i cannot
> activate mod_gzip/mod_deflate to gzip the stuff on the fly. But here's
> an easy workaround...
>
> Create a PHP file called jquery.php:
>
> <?php
> ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
> echo join('',file('jquery-1.1.3.1.pack.js'));
> ob_end_flush();
> ?>
>
> Now, in the main site layout template i have:
>
> <script type='text/javascript' src='/include/js/jquery.php'></script>
>
> Firebug confirms that the jQ transfer is then 12k, which is tolerable
> for my purposes.
>
> It would be only a tiny amount of extra work to integrate the PHP port
> of Dean Edwards' packer, such that the packing is done each time
> jquery.php is called, but that seems like overkill to me.
>
> This approach could just as easily be used to combine all required JS
> scripts on the fly (just be sure to insert a ';' after each one to
> accommodate scripts which don't have them), then gzip them, to help
> reduce the overall download overhead.
>
>
