Guys,
It's great to see that you're working in this direction - I'm thinking about
working on this for a while, but didn't have a gut to undertake such
ambitious project alone ;)
Do you have a working instance of ScriptLoader anywhere so I can aim some
performance tools at it?
Thank you,
Sergey
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Sergey Chernyshev
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Michael Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> These changes will probably result in some minor adjustments to existing
> skins. (I will try not to completely break compatibility cuz I know
> there are many custom skins out in the wild that would be no fun to stop
> working once they update medaiWiki)
>
> This consolidation of <head> includes _may_ result in _some_ un-updated
> skins referencing the same files twice which I think most browsers
> genneraly handle "oky"
>
> Enabling $wgEnableScriptLoader will not work so well with skins that
> have not been updated. Should have a patch soon. more about scriptLoader:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ScriptLoader
> (We will most likely ship with $wgEnableScriptLoader off by default )
>
> I am also very excited about jQuery making its way into core. Things
> like the add_media_wizard are much easier to put together with jQuery's
> nifty abstractions and msg system. More about add media wizard:
>
> http://metavid.org/blog/2009/03/27/add-media-wizard-and-firefogg-on-test-wikimediaorg/
>
> peace,
> michael
>
>
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> > Just a heads-up --
> >
> > Michael Dale is working on some cleanup of how the various JavaScript
> > bits are loaded by the skins to centralize some of the currently
> > horridly spread-out code and make it easier to integrate in a
> > centralized loader so we can serve more JS together in a single
> > compressed request.
> >
> > Unless there's a strong objection I'd be very happy for this to also
> > include loading up the jQuery core library as a standard component.
> >
> > The minified jQuery core is 19k gzipped, and can simplify other JS code
> > significantly so we can likely chop down wikibits.js, mwsuggest.js, and
> > the site-customized Monobook.js files by a large margin for a net
> savings.
> >
> > If you've done browser-side JavaScript development without jQuery and
> > wanted to kill yourself, I highly recommend you try jQuery -- it's
> > sooooo nice. :)
> >
> > -- brion
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