Compressed Prototype and Scriptaculous
March 28th, 2007
Just a little site news. Don't get too excited.
WebVeteran.com is now using the compressed versions of Scriptaculous and Prototype , as packaged by Steve Kallestad .
I've opted to use prototype.js 1.50 rc2 and scriptaculous 1.7 beta 2 because:
- These versions of both packages together do not exhibit some flaws is later versions
- This compressed version… actually works.
So go ahead and enjoy a webveteran.com that loads 130KB faster =)
Sidebar: paradigmatic …
A distinct pleasure. I found your URL peeking the scripts used at Twitter.
Some say Web2.0 is about interaction.
I suggest that this is a significant part, but only a part.
Your "view the animation" is a delight.
Somewhere between data input and helmet-fire, there can be pleasantly productive … which is pret’near blissful.
You take the craft to the realm of art, sir.
kudos
–bentrem
Thank you so much for the nice comment! I love what I do.
WOW from 130KB down to 14KB that´s awesome. Now I have decided to use this framework because it is so small.
Thank you and Best Regards from Germany
That’s odd: I just got email notification that a comment was added, but there’s no new comment to be seen.
"http://www.webveteran.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/28/Compressed-Prototype-and-Scriptaculous#cFE0EC7F5-1372-5743-E99EBE80792FD5F3 WOW from 130KB down to 14KB that´s awesome. Now I have decided to use this framework because it is so small."
Strange, no?
I was looking everywhere for the latest version of these compressed files and I finally found it. In case someone else is looking for them, you can find a single file to download at:
http://www.westonhankins.com/2010/optimize-prototype-scriptaculous-load-time
It’s not compressed as small as 14KB like the one here, but it’s definitively a lot smaller than the uncompressed versions.
@Robert Handel
I don’t like using packed because of the performance hit imposed on every single page load. It is much better to use a gzipped library, which is cache-able, and does not require unpacking with each page load. Also, packed libraries are nearly impossible to debug.
I’ll be posting a new .jgz soon. Stay tuned!