A very cool idea indeed!
Just a few things to note:
1) I don't think we'll have to change much from the
client-side. All we would have to do is to use
dynapi.compressor.asp as part of the src. For example:
<script
src="dynapi.compressor.asp?file=../src/dynapi.js"></script>
<script>
dynapi.library.setPath('dynapi.compressor.asp?file=../src/')
dynapi.library.include('dynapi.api');
</script>
2) Could this type of comression be made available
from the offline versions? Currently we have three
levels of compression: "None", "Low" and "High". This
could be callled "Max"
--
Raymond Irving
--- Stephen Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> I'm really glad that 3.0 beta is out! I've
> promised to start pulling my
> own weight by working on some of my 'big ideas'
> (well maybe small) that I
> have for DynAPI. Each of the items I have in mind,
> I've already started work
> on. I just needed a good kick in the butt to get the
> code and ideas out
> there. The first item I'd like to address is
> compression. I know that there
> is already a compression tool based on brain jar.
> But I've been thinking
> that the ultimate goal for me with DynAPI is to
> build a small talk like dev.
> environment that I can easily manipulate in
> realtime, and not have to muck
> around with compression as a post process. Because,
> lets face it, mods will
> be made, and I want to do them in an IDE built in
> DynAPI for DynAPI, and I
> want it optimized all the way. So I've come up with
> the idea of using inline
> compression for serving out the DynAPI library
> itself and would like to run
> the idea by everyone else for their impression.
>
> Currently we include src="dynapi.js" in our HTML
> headers, I've started
> creating a script file to replace this that will do
> the inline compression.
> I want to make it cross platform and have the
> majority of code in ASP for
> starters and PERL as the 2nd version. Instead of
> including src="dynapi.js",
> there will be a file called dynapi.asp that will
> serve up a compressed
> version of dynapi.js + a decompression routine if it
> is not passed any
> parameters. Otherwise it will serve up the requested
> file from the src
> directory. The comments for the dynapi.asp file
> would be broken down like
> this:
>
> '' DynAPI real time compression version for ASP
> based servers.
>
> '' First determine which file is being requested, or
> serve up dynapi.js
> compressed.
>
> '' Get the file date/timestamp and compare it to the
> cache.dat file in the
> cache folder.
>
> '' Find the cache folder, create it if it does not
> exist.
>
> '' Compare the filename/date/time and stamp and
> determine if they match
>
> '' Make mods to dynapi.js, add the decompression
> routine and mod the
> library.include/library.load to use
> dynapi.asp?file=xxx
>
> '' Compress the latest file if needed and save it to
> the cache folder.
>
> '' Return the compressed file from the cache folder.
>
>
> This will in effect, allow us to modify any file in
> the dynapi src or
> dynapi.js itself. Using dynapi.asp as your include,
> should in effect, always
> serve up a compressed version of the source files.
> This will give us the
> advantage of being able to mod away without haveing
> to deal with compression
> as a post process. Only the first time a file is
> served up will there be a
> delay while the server compresses a new or recently
> modified source file.
> Subsequent calls will return the contents of the
> file from the cache folder.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> My #2 item has to do with keyboard events... I've
> already worked out a
> library that can detect all keys and modifiers
> (including alt, arror, ctrl,
> shift, etc) on both Netscape 4+ and IE 4+. 'cept it
> doesn't match the
> current keyboard API, if someone is willing to take
> it as is, i can make it
> avail. right away for someone to work on it.
>
>
>
>
>
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