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• Optimization (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  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
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    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.
    
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      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.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by educated_foo (3106)

        Nope. Nitpicking is just what Pudge enjoys doing, and he's really good at it, for what that's worth. As he unfortunately "runs this place," we just have to STFU and deal with Teh Slowness.
        • Re: (Score:2)

          by acme (189)

          Or fork it and run your own!
          • Re: (Score:1)

            by kaare (663)

            I guess you don't want to fork the code, and it's quite hard to fork http://use.perl.org./ [use.perl.org]
            
            I recon that Perlbuzz is a fork attempt, but people still go here because of the mindshare.
            • Re:Optimization (Score:2)

              by Ovid (2709) on 2008.04.29 5:40 (#62460) Homepage Journal

              Perlbuzz doesn't allow random people to sign up and start blogging. That's the win that use.perl has over Perlbuzz.

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