On 1/17/06, Eugene Lazutkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yehuda Katz wrote: > > What would you guys say is the practical maximum size javascript file > > you'd want to load with a page? > > > > At this point, I'd like to use: > > Mochikit (100k) > > Mochikit Scriptaculous Port (50k -- maybe a bit smaller if compressed) > > IE7 (30k) > > > > Is that too much? Won't it cause serious problems for visitors with > > dialup? > > It is easy --- it was covered in elementary school. You have 180k => > 1440 kbit. If you assume that your dialup user downloads at 56kbit/s > (improbable) you are looking at ~26s pure download time.
Let's not forget, though, that you can deploy with gzip compression which (I think) will be used by the major browsers. Bob had been saying that MochiKit compresses to ~25K if I remember correctly. Kevin
