Bill, Thanks so much. My hosting service just told me that gzip is enabled, so I don't have to do anything but use the min version of the library. That's great.
On Oct 29, 7:36 pm, Bil Corry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dmlees wrote on 10/29/2008 8:56 PM: > > > My web hosting service said they think gzip compression is enabled. > > You can check. Load your javascript file directly, then use Firebug > Net to > inspect the headers, or the Web Developer add-on for Firefox use the "View > Response Headers" -- either way, if you see the header: > > Content-Encoding: gzip > > then it's being gzip'd. > > > Does that mean that all my javascript files are being gzipped on the > > server in such a way that when they get to my browser, they are > > processed correctly? If so, then I don't have to do anything to reduce > > the size of jquery 1.2.6 min to get the benefit of smaller files to > > send over the net. > > That's right, if the server is already gzipping your JavaScript files, then > you don't have to do anything more than use the min version of jQuery and the > gzip part is taken care of for you automatically. > > - Bil
