Thanks Theodore. I'll pass that along to John.
Rey...
Theodore Ni wrote:
I'm not going to enter this argument, but I do suggest that both gzipped and
non-gzipped file sizes be present, because a download link should have the
accurate download size. Otherwise, I agree that with the big gains gzipping
provides (less than 1/3 file size!), the gzipped size should be present to
alert users that a 46kb footprint is not what they have to settle with.
@Glen,
I'm not an expert on Apache and .htaccess, but it might be possible that
your server httpd.conf file is preventing certain .htaccess rules from
working. Just speculation on my part ;-)
On 9/14/07, Erik Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I could understand this complaint if the "21kb packed" link from the
previous version were replaced with a "14kb min/gzip" link, but that isn't
the case. The "21kb packed" link became a "26kb packed" link, and a link to
a minified version, which is ideal for gzipping, along with a link to a page
describing how to use said version was ADDED.
I think making that the first link is ideal because it's the best solution
for most cases. I'm pretty sure all the browsers that jQuery supports
support gzipped content.
It isn't like it's advertising it went from 21kb to 14kb. I think you're
being a little too harsh.
--Erik
On 9/14/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 14, 4:30 pm, seedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also had the same thing happen.
14kb is only after it has been gzipped by your server.
The version you are downloading has been minified, Its up to you to do
the
gzipping.
This is correct. The webmaster/developers/whoever chose to be a bit
underhanded there and say it's 14k "with gzip", but fail to mention
that the user must arrange for the code to get gzipped. Shame on them.
They've metamorphed from programmers to marketing people.
You cannot simply gzip the file and serve it as-is - that won't work
(at least, not on most browsers). You need to arrange for your web
server to feed the data compressed. There are a number of ways to do
this, but (IMO) none of them are suitable for beginners (and all of
them require either configuration changes on your web server or coding
in a second language, like PHP).
Follow the "gzipped" link from jquery.com and you'll find an article
which covers one way to accomplish this with PHP. Alternately, search
this forum, going back about 1 month, to find some discussions on it.
The approach proposed at the link mentioned above is sub-optimal
because it requires writing a file to your web server, which won't
work under all hosted accounts (for reasons described in my comments
posted at that site).
