[Javascript] external scripts

[Chris T]

I don't think you neccessarily need to combine the files. I don't see much
of a gain from doing so and if only one small portion needs updating in the
future, the user will need to update the WHOLE .js file instead of the small
.js file that needs to change later on.

90k sounds like an awful lot though. How much of that is comments?  How much
of this is redundant code that might be able to be functionalized/optimized
a bit better?

Chris Tifer




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Dougherty" <mdougherty at pbp.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:09 AM
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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