[TYPO3-dev] Minifying Prototype and Scriptaculous

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Martin Bless wrote:
> If its to reduce server load maybe this is an idea. Is Google still
> hosting the minimied version of prototype and so on? Look here for
> example:
> http://www.prototypejs.org/2008/5/27/prototype-hosted-on-google-s-servers
> 
> What they are saying starts like this:
> """
> Prototype hosted on Google's servers
> by Sam Stephenson | May 27th, 2008
> 
> Good news! Google now offers a cached, compressed copy of Prototype on
> its high-speed content distribution network via the AJAX Libraries
> API.
> """

Yes, I read it somwhere too. They also host a lot of other frameworks (scriptaculous, jquery, ...). The problem with their servers is that sometimes it takes too much time to connect to them. I think those servers are in US and connecting to US servers takes more time than to local servers.

Another problem with this solution that we cannot really depend on Google in this case. If Google suffenly cuts those server due to the economical crisis, TYPO3 will be broken.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 core team
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