I came across the following quote in a blog entry today: "The initial implementation I was working with utilized OpenLayers<http://openlayers.org/>, ... Unfortunately the size of the library seems to be constantly increasing (~200K in the last year) and currently weighs in at 560K uncompressed ... " [1]
...which got me thinking. Just now I did a build of the latest from trunk, and it clocked in at 566k. Doing a 'lite' build gives 115k. It seems like maybe we could do better than that? Someone referred me once to a post by John Resig about JS compression [2] that I thought was pretty interesting. It touched on the use of 'Packer' and the YUI Minimizer. As usual, I don't really have the time to go much further into this, but I thought that if anyone else out there was experiencing the same problems with the size of the library, this might make for an interesting side project. Erik [1] http://cwjen888.blogspot.com/2009/01/viewing-large-images-openlayers-gsiv.html [2] http://ejohn.org/blog/library-loading-speed/
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