It is suggested you used the "minified and gzipp'd" version, as the packed version will require additional processing to unpack or decompress it, as mentioned on the jQuery site: http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery
If you don't want to worry about correctly gzipping your source files, or if yo ur server does not have the ability, you can link directly to google's minifed+gzipped source files. EG: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js @ 16.7K is not bad :) On Jul 16, 6:31 pm, "Andy Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for clarifying Mika...please note Mika's comments. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Mika Tuupola > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:59 AM > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Subject: [jQuery] Re: "Uncompressed", "Minified and Gzipped" and "Packed" > > On Jul 16, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Andy Matthews wrote: > > > Packed takes the source code and runs it through an algorithmn which > > compresses variable names, methods, code, etc into one big line of > > javascript. You can find more information about it, and pack your own > > code, > > here: > >http://dean.edwards.name/packer/ > > > Minified uses server side compression to further reduce the file size. > > Drawback of this method is that your server needs to be equipped to > > offer this version, and the file needs to be de-compressed on the > > client side. > > Minifying does not use server side compression. Minifying means removing all > unnecessary characters from source code, without changing its functionality. > > Minified JavaScript files are usually further packed by gzipping them. > This is done on the fly by server. Apache comes with mod_deflate module by > default. This handles gzipping. > > Packed files have to be uncompressed on client side too. While gzipped files > are uncompressed by browser natively, packed files are "uncompressed" > calling JavaScript eval() everytime page loads. > > -- > Mika Tuupolahttp://www.appelsiini.net/
