That's possibly the smartest thing I've heard all day! :) The content INSIDE the lightbox/modal does need jquery but the biggest problem is that im dependent on using jquery to display the modal in the first place... thanks i'm gonna look for alternatives! :)
On Sep 17, 2:04 pm, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't feel tied tojQuery. 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 throughjQueryand 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 entirejquerylibrary, which is crippling load > > > times... > > > > we usejqueryextensively 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 > > >jquerysource 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
