On Oct 23, 6:01 pm, Bil Corry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eli wrote on 10/23/2007 10:54 AM: > > > I've noticed that on the front page of jQuery.com there is a new > > version for download, the minified and gzipped one. > > now it says that it weighs 14k, while ont he google download page, it > > says 46k. > > downloaded, and indeed, it's a 46k js file. > > what gives? > > > where is the minifieing & gzipping coming in? > > It's a 46k minified file. To get the 14k size, you have to serve it via a > web server that has gzip compression enabled AND the browser must be able to > accept gzip compression. If the browser can't accept gzip compression, or if > your web server can't serve it using gzip compression, then it's 46k for the > browser. > > - Bil
So basically all I need is to put the minified file on my server as usual, and those that have gzip enabled (all modern browser support gzip, right?) will get a 14k file instead of the 46k? Do I have to do any special adjustments to my apache 2 server to support gzip? Eli
