I like this reason and it could be something that would be nice as another reason why we should have a production and development setting in the application. BR Jason Brower
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 23:17 +0630, Phyo Arkar wrote: > Nice , but would it be extra work? > > -Most JS libs comes with their own minified versions. > -And Production setup for web2py is not rocket/or any built-in web > server . it is with Apache/Cherokee/Lighttpd, all of them have ability > to gzip > -You can comproess your own JS script using Yahoo/Google's > Compressors. > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Michele Comitini > <michele.comit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1) it is nice to have the ability to debug javascript that > comes with web2py. > 2) it is a waste of bandwith to send full script. > > You can partially solve 2) if you work behind web server > capable of sending compressed/gzip contents to clients willing > to accept it, > so that you can put all your jscript libraries human readable > and have them compressed on the fly before transmission. > > Anyway IMHO web2py can do much better by using a mimifier > similar to this: > http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.py.txt > > The idea would be that in production mode a mimified version > is generated of js inside the static dir once, else static js > is served > unchanged and debuggable. > > mic >
