Excellent work Frank, I love seeing what your approach does. Clever use of comment to
> The resulting release version (9.5 kb) is quite similar in size to the > "goog" version (11.5 kb), although it has only been minified with > SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS, while the "goog" version uses ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS. > I think this underpins my point that starting from standard JavaScript code > respecting rules like "avoid accessing global variables", you can do > without Google Closure Compiler's ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS. But of course, we > need a larger example before I'd dare to generalize this conclusion. I agree that a larger example is better, we need to be able to compare apples with apples. In my example I used the Closure Library for event handling, a forward looking action designed to accomodate non-DOM based events later on in development. To make my orange look more like your apple, I removed that code and it's dependencies and re-wrote the components to use DOM based event handling, like you did. When using ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS, this resulted in a single file of around 3kb. This appears to be 3 times smaller than your output. I'm sure this doesn't mean anything in the long run, don't get me wrong, but you're right to not generalize your conclusion just yet ;-) EdB -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
