Re: JS/CSS automatic concatenation and compression

Dear mark,

You are highlighting the main problem of concatenation.

but even a selective concatenation is not very easy.

let us take the example of prototype and scriptacuouls, sometimes we
need
-only prototype
-prototype with some scriptaculous files as when building an
autocomplete through ajax
-prototype with almost all the scriptaculous (maybe except unitest and
sound libraries) to use effects and drag drop and sliders on a wow UI
page

you are right but the decision is not easy.

For example If I know that the worst case scenario page will include
all the js files of my application and those js after minification and
gzipping will have the size of 150k, I will put them into a single
file, so the next request for the same page or for another page will
be just a verification if something has changed to any of the files
since my last request.

We should take a decision and it depends on the application.

Thank you again for highlight this problem and suggesting a solution

but I have another idea, when you javascript files are

On Oct 4, 7:22 pm, mark_story <mark.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Concatenating all JS files into one file is not ideal or optimal. Say
> for example that you are using jQuery + all of jQuery UI + page
> specific Javascript. Since you are gluing all the files together, on
> each new page users will need to redownload all of the library code in
> addition to the page specific code. A better solution would be to
> make separate concatenated files for different types of JS files, this
> would allow more effective caching and better reduce the number and
> size of HTTP requests.
>
> -Mark
>
> On Oct 3, 2:29 am, Davit Barbakadze <jaya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I wonder whether there already written plugin or component which
> > automatically concatenates all js and css files used (separately of
> > course), compresses them and places them onto corresponng place in the
> > layout?
>
> > So that in the end, for example, no matter how many js files were
> > included, in the header only one, compressed will be referenced,
> > holding united info of all those included js files.
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