Ariel Jakobovits wrote:
Is anyone else concerned by the fact that the datepicker plugin, which I love and appreciate, is 32K? unpacked, of course, but that's half the size of jQuery itself.
I'm not concerned personally. First of all, just stripping out comments will cut that in half, and compressing it will probably cut it in half again. It's got most of the functionality I need for an upcoming project, and I'm very glad not to have to write it myself. I will probably compress together all the plugins I use for all pages on the site and I'm expecting to have about 50K plus JQuery's own 20K, but because they will be packed together, it will generally be a one-time download. There will almost certainly be individual images which are larger. This file size is not yet a concern for me.
In development, I will include them all unpacked, and I don't think any tester will notice any significant delay because of it.
I love JQuery's focus on size. Too many competing libraries are really bloated. But I don't think anyone should be asking plug-in developers to do more than keep in mind the tradeoffs between features and download size and make decisions they feel appropriate.
-- Scott
