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  • According to the excellent YSlow plugin [yahoo.com] for Firefox, about 900K of that is uncompressed YUI javascript. There's no excuse for that -- the raw YUI libraries are very well documented, which is pointless for a production website. I use scriptaculous [aculo.us] and prototype.js [prototypejs.org] for my own work and I use yuicompressor [yahoo.com] to squish my JS and then gzip it. Gzipped content works smoothly on all browsers except Safari.

    To make it work with Safari too, you have name your file .jsgz instead of .js.gz and then do the following in
    • More to the point, does ANY of that shit get used on the front page?

      If not, and they are just there for caching purposes, the script tags can be moved down to the end of the page just before the so that the page renders FIRST and doesn't block while it pulls the JavaScript to cache it.

      • When I complained about the horrendously long load times due to Javascript [perl.org], pudge nitpicked my whatever it was about how I complained about it, basically told me I have no idea what I am talking about, and refused to engage the question on technical grounds to any extent whatsoever. Maybe if the complaint comes from someone he doesn’t personally dislike, he’ll actually manage to listen.

        • When I complained about the horrendously long load times due to Javascript [perl.org], pudge nitpicked my whatever it was about how I complained about it

          False. I argued against your actual points where you were incorrect.

          basically told me I have no idea what I am talking about

          False. I told you that you had no idea what you were talking about in certain aspects. I even said you were right about some things, but obviously wrong about others.

          and refused to engage the question on technical grounds to any extent whatsoever

          Utterly false, as anyone can plainly see from the discussion.

          • refused to engage the question on technical grounds to any extent whatsoever

            Utterly false, as anyone can plainly see from the discussion.

            A fine claim, considering your comment elsewhere on this thread:

            I just couldn’t care less to explain myself in such situations

            Yes, anyone can plainly see that from the discussion.

            You have literalism down to a fine art.

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