I'm sort of stuck because I really need both.
thats the eternal trade off of development. In the end you hope to achieve a happy medium as a project evolves the overall size of media/scripts/css etc tends to grow, and can get out of hand Some one earlier mentioned something akin to standard software installation eg a recommended install & and customisable install (for experienced users who know what their doing) I recall a professor saying about software 80% of users use 20% of the software being able to pick n choose included features and pack them into a bespoke file is vital - which bits are used is variable - some people will be drawn to animation for others the allure of xml dom etc will draw them to jQuery Can jQuery plugins test for the existence of a plugin (within a site)? may be I am being wacky :) I was thinking that the new jQuery button could have a class="jQueryPromoBttn" and clicking the image could demonstrate the ability of jQuery - a div fading up in the corner of the page for example. jQuery documentation should clearly illustrate which base / core jQuery is required and dependencies should be illustrated in a clear manor. I think the php pear site exemplifies this, i think this is mostly covered but could be a touch clearer. On 16/11/06, Paul McLanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sort of stuck because I really need both. Speed is great and if it were up to only me then I would agree with you guys about the priority. But I work for a company who hosts and maintains nearly 1500 sites. If we adopt a JS library, file size is a large factor in our decision due purely to the bandwidth costs. We get hate-email from our server guys and our VPs if file sizes go up too much; especially because of something they see as peripheral like javascript. A couple K means a lot to us when multiplied by the number of daily visits we serve. I'll tell you that file size of the packed library file was a large factor in our choosing jQuery over Prototype for a base js library for our new sites. The other factor being of course that it rules. Just a thought, Paul _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
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