Depending upon your server side code, take a look at ...

http://rakaz.nl/projects/combine/combine.phps

http://rakaz.nl/item/make_your_pages_load_faster_by_combining_and_compressing_javascript_and_css_files

Using caching makes a SIGNIFICANT difference to bandwidth usage. They
load the file once.

I use a modified version of this and it has cut down the hits considerably.

On 03/08/07, patrick.ninja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The prototype library is getting heftier and heftier to load into
> every page (though, the cost of loading under a megabyte into a page
> is getting lower and lower at the same time).  I'm refactoring a web
> application to, among many other things, leverage [wherever possible]
> ajax to inform more structured (and much more compact) interfaces and
> make business logic more accesible inline.
>
> The issue I'm having is in cutting up the prototype library into
> constituent files and finding a good strategy for doing it.  I already
> have a very good implementation of a dependency loader that loads
> script into the browser just-in-time (based on stated dependencies in
> the currently loading source file), and I want to push prototype into
> smaller files that leverage this to load up a custom environment of
> javascript based on the needs of the interface.
>
> Does anyone have any good suggestions/recommendations for pulling
> apart prototype.js beyond a base/ajax strategy?
>
>
> >
>


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