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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] 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.