Nice , but would it be extra work? -Most JS libs comes with their own minified versions. -And Production setup for web2py is not rocket/or any built-in web server . it is with Apache/Cherokee/Lighttpd, all of them have ability to gzip -You can comproess your own JS script using Yahoo/Google's Compressors.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Michele Comitini < [email protected]> wrote: > > 1) it is nice to have the ability to debug javascript that comes with > web2py. > 2) it is a waste of bandwith to send full script. > > You can partially solve 2) if you work behind web server capable of > sending compressed/gzip contents to clients willing to accept it, > so that you can put all your jscript libraries human readable and have them > compressed on the fly before transmission. > > Anyway IMHO web2py can do much better by using a mimifier similar to this: > http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.py.txt > > The idea would be that in production mode a mimified version is generated > of js inside the static dir once, else static js is served > unchanged and debuggable. > > mic >
