See, you are all talking about compressed downloaded file size, and features (which are all important). I have found myself wondering the same question of whether we have too many js libraries all overlapping, but I am more concerned about memory usage and overhead that my browser/client OS has to deal with. For instance, if I dump (www.netgrow.com.au/files) a JavaScript array while using the prototype library, there are a crap load of extra functions tacked on to each array and that kind of stuff has to add up.
Today I used a script to output all the variables in an IE window (http://www.thomasfrank.se/global_namespace.html) and dumped the result (with the above mentioned dump function). My CPU red lined at 100% for TEN MINUTES and then finally cranked out 25 MEGS of html dump showing me every single variable, function, array, etc in the page. *MUCH* of the stuff which was dumped out was stuff which came from different js libraries laying around. Maybe I'm paranoid, but that bothers me that I subject my browser to that EVEN if it is only a few K worth of source code and has tons of functionality. Is the bloat worth it? ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: too many js libraries Add another vote for jQuery from me. It really does encompass most of the functionality that I've needed for my apps. Rey Christopher Jordan wrote: > +1 for jQuery. Even though I've not seen your site, I'd almost be > willing to bet that it will do everything you want. > > Chris > > Ben Nadel wrote: >> For my 2 cent plug, I can tell you that the new jQuery library is only >> 20k compressed... So, even if you are not using it all, it's a really >> tight library with a simple API. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283482 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
