ahh !! .. mine has mod_defalte and zlib compression all on the server anyway so i didnt need to !! ...
I did notice that his method doesnt minify the files ... Each to their own Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Quadling" <rquadl...@googlemail.com> To: <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:30 PM Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Shrinking JS > > 2009/3/20 Alex Mcauley <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com>: >> >> Thanks but i wasnt looking to do it, i just had an idea !! >> >> Regards >> Alex >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Richard Quadling" <rquadl...@googlemail.com> >> To: <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:46 AM >> Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Shrinking JS >> >> >> >> 2009/3/20 Richard Quadling <rquadl...@googlemail.com>: >>> 2009/3/20 Jeztah <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com>: >>>> >>>> After a little playing ove the last couple of days i came up with a >>>> nice easy way of shrinking many js files on the fly into 1 file ... >>>> this will speed up load time heavily on heavy javascript loaded >>>> sites ..... the code is php and is very simple .. it also uses >>>> http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html to achieve its goal ... >>>> >>>> Now i must say in my tests sites with 3 or less large javascript >>>> includes this wil not speed up much - infact it wil be slower ... >>>> >>>> My tests are as follows .. >>>> >>>> Using >>>> >>>> Latest Prototype.js >>>> Latest Scriptaculous.js >>>> Latest Effects.js >>>> >>>> [phpcode] >>>> require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/resources/includes/server/ >>>> jsmin.php'); // jsmin >>>> $docroot=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; >>>> // array values need changing to reflect your include path(s) >>>> $jsArray=array( "p"=>"$docroot/resources/includes/client/proto.js", >>>> "f"=>"$docroot/resources/includes/client/functions.js", >>>> "s"=>"$docroot/resources/includes/client/scriptaculous.js", >>>> "e"=>"$docroot/resources/includes/client/effects.js" >>>> >>>> ); >>>> $required_js=explode(",",$_GET['load']); >>>> foreach($required_js as $reqkey=>$reqvalue) { >>>> echo JSMin::minify(file_get_contents($jsArray[$reqvalue])); >>>> } >>>> [/phpcode] >>>> Usage: >>>> URI -> js_load_min.php?load=p,s,e,f >>>> >>>> will go through the array and find the relevant files, then echo them >>>> out into one big file (minified on the fly) - this gets round the "2 >>>> requests per domain Async" loading issues some people have with >>>> multiple CDNS and lots of remote images/includes - it can easily be >>>> ported to get the files remotely and some caching of some sort would >>>> easily be added ... >>>> >>>> On my test i loaded 5 javascript files from the same server as the >>>> page on thier own and page load was 4 seconds ... after using the >>>> above code i got the load time down to averageing 1.5 seconds per >>>> refresh. >>>> >>>> Then testing with only 3 files (prototype,scriptac,effects) the normal >>>> load method was around 1.8 seconds on 1st load, then dropped to 0.8 >>>> (AVG) per refresh .. while the method above was 1.5 seconds on every >>>> load and refresh >>>> >>>> Someone may find this usefull / interesting and perhaps likes the >>>> concept and may want to do something with it, i dont have time at the >>>> moment !!! >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Alex >>>> >>>> >> >>>> >>> >>> http://rakaz.nl/item/make_your_pages_load_faster_by_combining_and_compressing_javascript_and_css_files >>> >>> -- >>> ----- >>> Richard Quadling >>> Zend Certified Engineer : >>> http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 >>> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" >>> >> >> I had to do some minor mods for IE6 to this. But it works REALLY well. >> >> -- >> ----- >> Richard Quadling >> Zend Certified Engineer : >> http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 >> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" >> >> >> >> >> > >> > > No problem. Just saving you becoming a wheel maker. > > The one I linked to uses gzip to compress the files and then caches > them on the server. That way, whenever a change is made, everyone gets > a new pre-cached compressed file. No need to re-compress it. This > means the actual transfer goes from many hits to none, once cached. > > It works really well on our intranet (IE6, IE7, FF, Chrome, Safari, > Opera - Windows, Linux desktop and Macs). > > Richard. > > -- > ----- > Richard Quadling > Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
