[TYPO3-dev] Minifying Prototype and Scriptaculous

[Jerome Schneider]

Hi Dmitry,

I agree with you. I also gzip the minified js in my projects, and it 
works incredibly well

For instance, in ameos_formidable, where I rely on minify+gzip:

raw js: 174KB
minified js: 124KB
minified+gzipped: 32KB

To serve the gzip'd js as so, you have to serve it with a 
"Content-Encoding: gzip" HTTP header

This can be done by apache using some apache rules, but for easy 
deploiment what I alsways do is this:
My <script> tag refers to a php file containing these lines:

<?php
	header("Content-Type: text/javascript");
	header("Content-Encoding: gzip");
	header("Cache-Control: max-age=86400, public");
	fpassthru(fopen(realpath("./formidable.minified.js.gz"), "rb"));
	exit;
?>

And this way the browser understand that he needs to dezip content 
before using it.

One more thing: for best compression results, I use this command line:
gzip --best formidable.minified.js

--
See you in t3board !!!
Jerome

Dmitry Dulepov a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> I am playing with my test site to optimize its loading. I just found that if I minify Prototype, it becomes 25% smaller in size (93KB instead of 126) and for scriptaculous effects 38K become 29K (27% difference).
> 
> I propose to ship minified versions of these scripts alongside with standard versions. The only drawback of this is that we must update minified versions when normal versions are updated. Otherwise it is only advantages to have minified versions.
> 
> What do you think?
>