gzip and minifing *do* go together. Here's a really great site that compares the different approaches. http://compressorrater.thruhere.net/
minifing before gziping shows a considerable reduction in content size (usually between 5-10 percent). On 9/2/07, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so we should do one or the other, i got the impression that his tool > complained because js was not minified even though it was gzipped. > > -igor > > > On 9/2/07, Matej Knopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For certain browsers (even IE6) the GZIP compression doesn't work. And > if > > you have a lot of javascripts (YUI, dojo, ...) it can make a difference. > > > > -Matej > > > > On 9/2/07, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > erm....what exactly is the point of minifing AND gziping javascript or > > > anything else? if you take a zip file and then zip it again do you get > a > > > smaller file? > > > > > > -igor > > > > > > On 9/1/07, Ryan Sonnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > excellent! Thanks Matej. Let me know if you have any other ideas > on > > > > this. > > > > As soon as there's an abstraction in place, i'll be happy to create > a > > > > wicketstuff project with the dojo (and maybe YUI) compressors! > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-918 > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9/1/07, Matej Knopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I don't see reason why not, you can create a RFE in jira. > > > > > > > > > > -Matej > > > > > > > > > > On 9/2/07, Ryan Sonnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Creating a pluggable interface for this would allow for non-ASL > > > > > solutions > > > > > > to > > > > > > be hosted through wicket-stuff projects. The default > > implementation > > > > > could > > > > > > stay as it is today. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9/1/07, Matej Knopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, I certainly didn't want to reinvent the wheel. But all > > > > existing > > > > > > > solutions I was able to find either relied on a third part > > library > > > > > > > (shrinksafe) or had license not compatible with ASL. So I just > > > wrote > > > > a > > > > > > > simple stripper. I think it still helps a lot, I didn't want > to > > > > build > > > > > a > > > > > > > perfect stripper. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you know of a solution that doesn't mean another dependency > > and > > > > is > > > > > > > compatible with ASL, I have no objections. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Matej > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9/1/07, Ryan Sonnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've been running my app through the YSlow firefox plugin, > and > > > > have > > > > > > been > > > > > > > > *very* impressed on how wicket does the "right thing" most > of > > > the > > > > > time > > > > > > > > (ex: > > > > > > > > gzip css and javascript). nice work guys! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > While digging through the YSlow feedback, it suggested that > > the > > > > > > > javascript > > > > > > > > should be "minified". This led me to the wicket > > > > JavascriptStripper, > > > > > > and > > > > > > > > after enabling it for my application, YSlow still reports > that > > > > some > > > > > > > > scripts > > > > > > > > are not minified. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There seem to be a number of javascript compression tools > out > > > > there, > > > > > > and > > > > > > > > I'm > > > > > > > > wondering if this functionality could be "pluggable" in > > > > wicket. I'm > > > > > > > > interested in trying out a few different options to see > their > > > > > results: > > > > > > > > * JSMin - http://inconspicuous.org/projects/jsmin/jsmin.java > > > > > > > > * Dojo Shrink Safe - http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My impression is that the Wicket JavascriptStripper is a > great > > > > > > starting > > > > > > > > solution, but there are quite a few very advanced solutions > > out > > > > > there, > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > > it would be great if wicket could leverage them instead of > > > > > > "re-inventing > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > wheel". Has anyone looked into this in the past? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
