> SC on the other hand is different and much simpler so the compatibility > tradeoff (e.g. compression vs. browsers) could be shifted to the user > and his own installation.
We did some quick tests yesterday. While gzip compression reduced the size of our large JS/CSS collections by 75% and 85% respectively, the JS download from a ReadyNAS took about 3-4x longer due to added lag for compression (time for FF to download the file, measured with Firebug/YSlow). Sure, once it's downloaded, it can be cached on the client side, reducing that amount. But there's little advantage for the standard use case (local network). I'll rather concentrate on reducing the number of requests done to the server (currently ~100 for the start page!) by combining stylesheets, scripts and some of the artwork files (sprites). Michael _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
