Yeah, the packer does a good job initially but doesn't do a good job of getting gzipped. At least with my testing, I'm able to get a better file size by using the min version + gzip. jQuery is only around 11k doing it that way.
-- Brandon Aaron On 8/15/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 15, 2:33 pm, "Brandon Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing this. Use the minified version instead of the packed > > version for even better file size savings. :) > > i experimented on that. i expected the new YUI minifier to give better > compression (as it does on all of my plugins), but it only compresses > jQ to 30k. i got the best jQ compression using a PHP port of the > Edwards Packer: > > http://wanderinghorse.net/computing/javascript/#packers > > In any case, the different pack/min techniques will give different > results on different inputs. On very small JS files MIN is normally > better because of the PACK overhead (just under 200 bytes, i think). > On large files, PACK tends to beat out MIN, but this isn't always so. > YUI minifier is damned good, at least on my code, but it seems to not > be the best packer for jQ. Anyway... the point is simply to experiment > and find the best one for your purposes. A couple K either way > probably isn't going to kill anyone. > >
