Hi Richard Thanks again for your comprehensive replies, I have now decided to go with jQueryUI since the filesize between that and my collection of other plugins was nearly the same now that I know it contains jquery. Most of my other assumptions were wrong too as they only applied to development source code.
On Jun 9, 1:26 pm, "Richard D. Worth" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > When you say full download, are you talking about the size of the zip > > file > > > you download, which includes compressed and uncompressed files, as well > > as > > > demos and documentation for each plugin? Or the size of the js and css > > that > > > the user will have to download? I just created a 1.7.2 download selecting > > > Tabs and Datepicker and I got this: > > > > js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js 20kb > > > js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js 17kb > > > css/theme-name/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css 6kb > > > css/theme-name/images/ 26kb > > > I didn't download it, as the download page put me off by letting me > > know the filesize would be 250kb. I assumed it would not include > > jquery too, as other plugins generally don't include jquery, and I > > assumed that anyone who is interested in jQueryUI already uses jQuery. > > > I'm not sure how you are working out your filesizes, I presume you are > > quoting what the figures would be if the server used gzip compression. > > I must've been, yeah. I looked at the files in the .zip, so the reported > size was the compressed size. > > > > > I downloaded the files, and this is the size of them: > > js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js 55kb > > js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js 62kb > > css/no-theme/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css 26kb > > css/no-theme/images/ 31kb > > > That isn't too large now that I realise it includes jQuery. Perhaps > > you should make this clearer on the download page? Because if you > > deselect all packages, then select "UI Core", it claims the filesize > > is only 20kb (or 9kb minified), which seemed to indicate it did not > > contain jQuery. > > Indeed, the download page could make it a lot clearer what the size is, and > where the size is coming from. Thanks for the feedback. > > - Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
