[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-08-28 Thread Michael Geary
These are just static files? You could use Google's copy of jQuery: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js";> And host the rest of your files on Amazon S3. Let them worry about the scaling. Combine the plugin and the other JS file into a single .JS file and minify

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-08-29 Thread Alex Weber
thats a pretty good solution... ive also been thinking about using cachefly as a backup maybe... i'd rather use packed then minified though :) im sure i can find one here on googlecode thogh thanks! On Aug 28, 9:48 pm, "Michael Geary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are just static files? > >

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-08-29 Thread Bil Corry
Alex Weber wrote on 8/29/2008 10:15 AM: i'd rather use packed then minified though :) Use minified, not packed. Although a packed file is smaller, it's overall performance is worse when compared to minified: - This means, in the end, that using a minifed version of the code is much fas

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-08-30 Thread Alex Weber
Thanks Billy, I wasn't aware of that! While we're on the subject I have another question: Currently what I'm doing is: 1) Call function 1, checks for jQuery and if not then loads the library and recursively checks until its available. 2) Once its available, a second function is called and does

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-08-30 Thread Michael Geary
> From: Alex Weber > > Currently what I'm doing is: > > 1) Call function 1, checks for jQuery and if not then loads > the library and recursively checks until its available. > 2) Once its available, a second function is called and does > the same thing to load a plugin > 3) Ditto for my custom

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-08-31 Thread Alex Weber
Thanks for the reply Mike, here goes: (the ==pagename.ext== denotes a new file - sure there are better ways of doing this but i hope its legible) ==index.html== http://www.mydomain.com/js/ mts_loader.js"> ==mts_loader.js== var mts_finan_times, mts_finan_timeout, mts_finan_loaded, mts_finan

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Geary
Holy moly, that is complicated! No, you don't need to do any of that. Even if it were the right approach, it's poorly coded, with the same ten-line function duplicated three times, and a completely hard-coded, non-generalized way of handing the load sequencing. (What do you do if you need to add

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Weber
Thanks a million Mike! I hated that code but wasn't sure how to make it better... :) So just to clear things up, you prefer using document.write() to insert tags instead of appending the elements to the DOM: var finan = document.createElement('script'); finan.type = 'text/javascrip

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Geary
> From: Alex Weber > > So just to clear things up, you prefer using document.write() > to insert

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-02 Thread Alex Weber
Thanks again Mike! I reckon I have it down to a 'T' now! :) Just one doubt (sorry i've taken so much of your time already!): When you say: "Concatenate all of your scripts into a single file." Do you mean the entire jquery library as well? Is this feasible? Like, copy and paste the entire jq

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Geary
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:07 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of > multiple libraries? > > > Thanks again Mike! > > I reckon I have it down to a 'T' now! :) > > Just one doubt (sorry i've

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-03 Thread Alex Weber
-- > > Your script goes here > > ;// > > That way you get a nice visual separation between the scripts, and the extra > semicolons won't hurt anything. > > -Mike > > > From: A

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-03 Thread Alex Weber
There's quite a few ways! :) You can use this link to do it directly from your browser: http://fmarcia.info/jsmin/test.html Or if you're more skeptical the original implementation and ports to every programming language you can eat with a spoon are here: http://javascript.crockford.com/jsmin.htm

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-03 Thread Mika Tuupola
On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:44 AM, viktor wrote: How do you minify a .js file? http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html On bottom of the page is link for implementations in several languages. -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/

[jQuery] Re: best techniques to optimize loading of multiple libraries?

2008-09-03 Thread viktor
How do you minify a .js file? On Aug 29, 11:04 pm, Bil Corry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Weber wrote on 8/29/2008 10:15 AM: > > > i'd rather use packed then minified though :) > > Use minified, not packed.  Although a packed file is smaller, it's overall > performance is worse when compare