[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-05 Thread eferraiuolo
Just use the minified version and send it over the wire gzipped and be done with it. The eval of packed jQuery does take some time, so even if the file is cached it probably will be slightly slower than the cached minified variation. Check this out:

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Kretz
I would need to see some actual stats as to the performance hit of the jQuery file loading itself into memory before I had this concern. My personal experience, even with very slow computers, is that I haven't seen a lag when loading a cached page with a cached jQuery file into memory. I have

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
On Nov 4, 3:04 pm, Jeffrey Kretz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would need to see some actual stats as to the performance hit of the jQuery file loading itself into memory before I had this concern. Is there a good way to profile page load, and determine how much time is spent parsing/executing

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread Karl Swedberg
Hi Robert, You can try the YSlow extension. It piggybacks off of the Firebug extension for Firefox: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ --Karl _ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Nov 4, 2007, at 3:37 PM, S. Robert James wrote: On Nov 4, 3:04

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread Sean Catchpole
Hi Robert, I doubt the load time of jQuery is very significant. Downloading files take much much longer than it does to execute. Regardless, I personally would not use frames since then the url will never change. ~Sean

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Kretz
-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S. Robert James Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:37 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time On Nov 4, 3:04 pm, Jeffrey Kretz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would need to see some actual stats

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread Morgan Allen
Firebug even has its own code profiler built in (Profile button on the Console tab), I have used it and YSlow, I think firebugs is better on its own. On 11/4/07, Karl Swedberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, You can try the YSlow extension. It piggybacks off of the Firebug extension for

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
-Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S. Robert James Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:37 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time On Nov 4, 3:04 pm, Jeffrey Kretz [EMAIL PROTECTED

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread Mika Tuupola
On Nov 5, 2007, at 12:11 AM, Jeffrey Kretz wrote: of network overhead (duh) without the (albeit minor) performance hit of the packed version. The performance hit is bigger for clients which have slow refrigerator cpu (read iPhone). -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/