Improve initial loading speed
Reported by sebastian | July 10th, 2008 @ 09:28 AM
The Script.aculo.us-library consists of 7 separate files, which, even if reduced to less files than that, makes downloading the library more time-consuming, as for each and every file, the server latency has to be taken into consideration.
Additionally, the files are transmitted uncompressed, which could reduce download speed, too.
My proposal is the following:
Offer the library in a different way:
1. Offer the different available combinations of the library as complete files (everything in one file).
2. Offer the files both compressed and uncompressed.
The compression should of course not include the license notice and should include a link back to the script.aculo.us-site.
Mootools offers that, and for time-conscious developers, the less than optimal way script.aculo.us is loaded is definitely a reason to choose one library over the other.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Thomas Fuchs July 10th, 2008 @ 08:12 PM
- → State changed from “new” to “resolved”
For faster serving:
http://mir.aculo.us/2008/5/27/go...
Also, if you want to serve yourself:
http://groups.google.com/group/p...
Our recommendation is to serve the files gzipped and concatenated. We're working on tools to make this easier, but for now use whatever your deployment environment provides. These tools should arrive with Prototype 2 and script.aculo.us 2.
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script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript framework for visual effects and interface behaviours.
Source available from github
The Git repository resides at:
http://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous
Check out the current development trunk with:
git clone git://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous.git
As script.aculo.us 1.xx is feature-frozen, this development trunk is for bugfixes only.
New development should happen only for
script.aculo.us 2.
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