Don't feel tied to jQuery. There are many lightbox scripts offering modal dialogs, independent from any library, with less than 10kb uncompressed. Just google "lightbox".
On Sep 17, 12:45 pm, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
