Actually, IE 6.0 SP1 has some issues with GZipping. The problem is that it occasionally doesn't read the entire stream and is unable to properly unpack the file.
It was fixed in IE 6.0 SP2. The server-side gzip code I used looks for IE6 SP1 to determine whether or not it should gzip it. JK From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard D. Worth Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:17 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: "Uncompressed", "Minified and Gzipped" and "Packed" On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:55 AM, fambi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. How is browser support for un-gzipping javascript (and css for that matter)? I heard, once upon a time, that there were issues... is that once upon a time? Modern browsers support gzip across the board. Even not-at-all modern browsers support it. IE4+, FF, Safari, Opera 5.12+. See http://www.http-compression.com/ for more info. One bonus here is that the browser and server communicate about what they support, so there's never a concern that a server will send a g'zipped file and then the browser (that doesn't understand gzip) will choke on it. If someone out there is still using IE3, well... getting a non-gzipped version of jQuery will be the least of their concerns. - Richard 2. Also, Richard, what do you mean by "If you don't want to worry about *******correctly****** gzipping your source files"? Thanks On Jul 17, 5:05 pm, Richard W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/
