> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Michael Dale > Sent: 15 December 2008 16:33 > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Future of Javascript and mediaWiki > > Roan Kattouw wrote: > > Aryeh Gregor schreef: > > > >> I doubt there's a substantial > >> difference in the size depending on whether you include > newlines or > >> not. But benchmarking's the only way to test, right? The > evidence > >> that minification helps for large amounts of JS are fairly > >> unequivocal (see, e.g., Steve Souders' "High Performance > Websites"). > >> > > Why don't we benchmark this on the actual MediaWiki JS? > > > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > > I don't think the current set of javascript will benefit from > this effort as much as _future_ set of javascript. ie future > libraries will contain many thousands of lines distributed > over dozens of files rather than hundreds of lines over a > handful of js files. >
Minification could be made pretty pointless in the future. Chromium* has experimental tech within it, which can reduce the payload of each js/css request to something as small as 30 bytes. Jared * Google toolbar for IE supposedly implements it, but I've been unable to get it working. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
