Alex - I briefly went through jQuery and removed some of the unused parts (as it relates to SimpleModal). I was able to get it down to just under 75k, 42k minified (which is about 12k less that the non-modified version). I can't make any guarantees, but if you'd like to try the slimmed down version, just send me an email.
I don't really see how 55k would really "cripple" your load times - especially if you are loading the scripts near the bottom of your page. In addition, if you are using compression, you should hardly notice the loading time for the script(s). -Eric On Sep 17, 1:20 am, Alex Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and no i dont mean packing or minifying! :) > > basically all i need is 1 plugin (simplemodal) and because of that i'm > forced to load the entire jquery library, which is crippling load > times... > > we use jquery extensively in our website but we have banners in other > sites that open a simplemodal (lightboxish) dialog and as far as the > banners are concerned since its many sites and many different viewers > we can't really count on caching to help either... > > so here's my question, is it possible to strip-down the original > jquery source code *just* for the banner modal? > i guess it could be a kind of trial and error thing, but i'm wondering > how interconnected the seperate parts of the library are and whether i > should even spend any time on this... > > although it seems silly to have to load almost 50kb of additional JS > when all i want is a 5Kb plugin :) > > thanks! > > -Alex
