Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap. [LWN.net]

Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap.

Posted Mar 23, 2009 12:53 UTC (Mon) by mrshiny (guest, #4266)
In reply to: Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap. by niner
Parent article: Stallman: the JavaScript trap

We've measured using packing AND compression and the effect is not insignificant. I'll thank you for not telling me how to spend my bandwidth money.

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Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap.

Posted Mar 23, 2009 13:13 UTC (Mon) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

Exactly. Our company's product has a rich Web 2.0 client that's written in JavaScript and runs in the browser. It's in fact several megabytes of our code, along with YUI and a couple of other libraries. Not only was the improvement "not insignificant", it was huge enough to change the initial application load from "unacceptably slow" to "usable". (Sorry for not having the numbers here. I could do the mesaurements, but I'm quite sure you'd find some paper on this after a minute of googling).