You can bypass minification with &raw=true, but it would kill most of RL niceties too.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I've started experimenting with embedding my ogv.js media player into > TimedMediaHandler to provide Ogg playback in Safari and Internet Explorer: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145756/ > > This involves on-demand loading of a fairly large chunk of mostly > machine-generated, dense, pre-minified JavaScript that weighs in around a > megabyte (gzips to 250k or so). > > > Initially I tried tossing it in with the ResourceLoader modules and loading > it with mw.loader.using(), but in some configurations the automatic JS > minification in ResourceLoader was taking too long to process the file. (On > MediaWiki-Vagrant with Zend PHP and Xdebug enabled, it actually hit the > 30-second execution limit. Ouch!) > > I couldn't find a way to disable minification for a particular module; it > looks like it's applied as a filter step after modules are bundled > together, so I'm not sure it's really possible. > > > Currently I'm loading the ogv.js payload as a separate file with > $.ajax({dataType:'script'}); this totally bypasses ResourceLoader and thus > the minifier, but gzipping is dependent on the web server configuration. > (MediaWiki-Vagrant's Apache configuration auto-gzips .js files, so yay!) > > I also lose other ResourceLoader features like automatic cache > invalidation; for now I'm appending a version parameter on the URL to > ensure that the file is re-cached when updated, but it has to be manually > updated along with the JS payload file. > > > Any recommendations for making ResourceLoader and large, pre-minified JS > sources fit together better? Or is what I'm doing pretty much the best > practice for now? :) > > I'm considering a 'stub' ResourceLoaderModule subclass that generates the > $.ajax() loader call including an automatic version timestamp URL parameter > from the file's last-modification time... > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
