Right, just like that, but written in Java. I also do CSS, but that's
just a matter of a few regexps.
--Erik
On 8/15/07, polyrhythmic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> @Erik: (Damn this Groups post delay...) Minify does exactly that,
> but with CSS too. Minifying, caching, and single-request serving.
>
> On Aug 15, 2:32 pm, "Erik Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I cache the packed versions. Actually, I concatenate all of the scripts that
> > I need for a page, minify them (used to use packer, now I use YUImin), and
> > then cache that, all on the fly. So I have one script tag like:
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript" src="/myscriptmerger/dimensions.js,sort.js,
> > myscript.js"></script>
> >
> > On the first request, I merge the three scripts, minify them, write them out
> > to a cache file, and store the cache file path with the script names. Next
> > time I get these same scripts in this order, I serve out the cached version.
> > This has quite a few benefits: it allows me to have whatever scripts I need
> > on a given page, it keeps my scripts readable on the server while still
> > compressing them for the client, and it reduces the number of HTTP requests
> > necessary to load all of the scripts.
> >
> > The only real downside is you may lose a little performance from things not
> > caching as much as they would if they were in separate files, so I don't
> > serve up jquery.js/interface.js/ext.js this way hoping that the browser will
> > cache them.
> >
> > --Erik
> >
> > On 8/15/07, Ganeshji Marwaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Very cool... I will start using this technique right away...
> >
> > > But my only concern is, since this technique compresses the file everytime
> > > it is requested, isn't it an overkill on the server's CPU?
> >
> > > -GTG
> >
> > > On 8/15/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi, all!
> >
> > > > i'm working on re-designing the web site for my mother's company,
> > > > which was horribly neglected/abused by the previous webmaster, and i
> > > > came across an interesting problem...
> >
> > > > A part of the refactoring is to use jQuery for parts of the site.
> > > > However, since all of the pages use the same site layout template
> > > > (which includes the headers/script tags) yet most of the site won't
> > > > actually use the JS features, i wanted to make the jQ download as tiny
> > > > as possible.
> >
> > > > Unfortunately, i don't have admin rights on my server so i cannot
> > > > activate mod_gzip/mod_deflate to gzip the stuff on the fly. But here's
> > > > an easy workaround...
> >
> > > > Create a PHP file called jquery.php:
> >
> > > > <?php
> > > > ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
> > > > echo join('',file('jquery-1.1.3.1.pack.js'));
> > > > ob_end_flush();
> > > > ?>
> >
> > > > Now, in the main site layout template i have:
> >
> > > > <script type='text/javascript' src='/include/js/jquery.php'></script>
> >
> > > > Firebug confirms that the jQ transfer is then 12k, which is tolerable
> > > > for my purposes.
> >
> > > > It would be only a tiny amount of extra work to integrate the PHP port
> > > > of Dean Edwards' packer, such that the packing is done each time
> > > > jquery.php is called, but that seems like overkill to me.
> >
> > > > This approach could just as easily be used to combine all required JS
> > > > scripts on the fly (just be sure to insert a ';' after each one to
> > > > accommodate scripts which don't have them), then gzip them, to help
> > > > reduce the overall download overhead.
>
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