2010/9/7 Dmitriy Sintsov <ques...@rambler.ru>: > Do browsers support streamed and combined (archive-like) gz-encoded > content? Then probably minifying will not be neccessary. Minification makes a shocking difference: remember that it's not just whitespace being stripped, it's comments as well. For example, in /trunk/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/js we have:
plugins.combined.js: 259281 bytes plugins.combined.min.js: 142565 bytes plugins.combined.js.gz: 65569 bytes plugins.combined.min.js.gz: 32740 bytes So not only is the minified JS roughly half the size in both the compressed and the uncompressed cases, it actually /compresses better/ (3.95x vs. 4.35x). > Also, it would > be great if these high-level JS-libraries like jQuery actually were > ported into DOM API level (native browser's implementation instead of > extra JS layer). However, these questions are to FF/IE/Opera > developers... I definitely think this is the future, provided it's implemented reliably cross-browser. Also, you'd probably want to have a fallback library for browsers that have no or incomplete (e.g. missing a jQuery feature that's newer than the browser) native support. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
