For #1 I think you build an optimized js file with just what you need when you are ready to deploy to production (still on my todo list)
http://docs.openlayers.org/library/deploying.html For #2, try jslint (also on my todo list) - http://www.jslint.com/ hth charles On Jan 24, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Robert Buckley wrote: > Good Morning, > > Could someone please offer some advice regarding... > > > 1. How to successfully reduce the loading time of a geoext/openlayers project. > I am aware that the loading time of these libraries takes up to between 5 - > 10 seconds. Therefore... should I look through my code after the project is > completed and note which controls have been used and then create a customized > openlayers js library or do you generally plan a project with the tools and > controls already defined and create the openlayers.js before you start > programming? In my experience (which is very limited) I start programming > with the whole openlayers/geoext/ext libraries so that when I need to add > something which was not planned before hand, I don´t have to worry about > loading new code into the js library. Assuming this is the way most > programmers start, which method do you use to remove unused scripts? > > 2. Debugging a project. > I am using Aptana (free version) and firefox with firebug to develop. This > combination works great....until I open the project with Internet Explorer > and discover that nothing works! Does anyone have any tips regarding > writing code which can be used to simultaneously debug in Firefox and IE? I > find that most errors are forgotten commas, but occasionally there are > undfined objects which show up in the ie developer tool bar as errors in the > openlayers.js code. These errors are the worst as there is not direct link to > the code in my own scripts? Does anyone have any IE debugging tools which > help? How do you get around these problems? Anyone used Chrome to debug? > > > Thanks for any replies/comments/suggestions, > > Yours, > > Robert Buckley > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
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