[Javascript] external scripts

[Mike Dougherty]

Crunchinator Demo took one of the main files and trimmed 38% of what is primarily whitespace
readable code is tab indented, doesn't heavily overload each line, put spaces around operators, 
etc. which can all be stripped with the comments that describe the what's going on in each control 
structure.

   Most of this code is rendering HTML, so there is the associated bloat of html.  The whole thing 
is procedural to start with, so I doubt I can get further economy proceduralizing anything else. 
 (that's why there's 20+ scripts, each is an object w/ method functions)

   If simple whitespace and comment removal isn't enough, i will consider translating the 
procedure names and variables - but that will increase the chance for a false conversion due to 
mixed string delimiters.

to see what i'm talking about, note the lag time between clicking "Add to Cart" and having the 
product customizer load:  https://www.pgiproducts.com/pgi.asp?SKU=DP00018&ID=123

   hmm... there's also a round-trip redirection in there too, maybe i can eliminate that (which 
should help dial-up performance immensely)

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:33:54 -0400
  "Chris T" <christ at saeweb.com> wrote:
>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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