[Javascript] external scripts

[Laurent Muchacho]

Hi Mike,

I found this a while ago http://www.brainjar.com/js/crunch/demo.html I'm
sure it will work perfectly for what you want to do. In the sources code you
will find all the regexp to do what you want.


Laurent

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dougherty [mailto:mdougherty at pbp.com]
Sent: 21 June 2004 15:10
To: [JavaScript List]
Subject: [Javascript] external scripts


I have a client-side browser app composed of about 20 external scripts
totalling about 90k

I viewed this site over dial-up and realized there has to be some
optimization to make the site 
more palatable for dial-up (and consequently improve performance on
broadband too)

I'm guessing a single monolithic script file would be retrieved and cached
by the browser more 
efficiently than 20 separate files - is this a correct assumption?

I also have inline comments in the script- these are useful for whatever
developer go back to the 
source for upgrades, but serve only to bulk up the download for the
customer.  

Since I'm going to collect these 20+ separate scripts into a single download
anyway, I plan to 
remove the comments too.  Can someone provide me with the regexp to remove
everything between /* 
and */?  (the / needs to be escaped, and isn't the * a wildcard?  i really
don't "get" regexp like 
i want to)

What is the 'best practice' for maintaining readible source code for
developer use and 
pseudo-compiled script for browser consumption?
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