Thanks, Richard! I suspected it, but wasn't sure, thank you for your help! 2009/2/25 Richard D. Worth <rdwo...@gmail.com>
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM, rasit <rasitoz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi, all! >> Homepage of JQuery says that JQuery is 19 KB (minified) > > > Actually if you look closely it says Minified and Gzipped. The minified > part takes it from 120KB to 55KB. The gzipping part takes it from 55KB to > 19KB, but is undone by your web browser automatically by the time you save > the file. > > >> , but download >> link goes to a file which is 55 KB. Does it need to be compressed? If >> yes, how can I compress it? > > > Minified, it's ready to be gzipped by a webserver. As far as how to have > your server do that, that depends on what web server you're using, but most > have some option to enable gzipping based on mime-type (ex. > http://www.google.com/search?q=gzip+javascript+apache ). This typically > happens on-the-fly, meaning you place the 55KB (minified but uncompressed) > version on the server and it delivers the 19KB version to the browser. Such > a configured server will also handle the negotiating with the client to make > sure it can accept the gzipped version before sending it, falling back to > uncompressed if not (though there is quite good support for gzipping in web > browsers, even much older versions). > > - Richard > > -- M. Raşit ÖZDAŞ
