- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 07:17:05 -0400
- To: ext Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>
- CC: public-webapps@w3.org, public-scriptlib@w3.org
FYI, a Script Library Community Group (Cc'ed) was formed some time ago and it may have some similar interest(s) <http://www.w3.org/community/scriptlib/> (although their mail list archive indicates the CG isn't very active). Perhaps someone in that CG has some comments on Yehuda' email. -AB P.S. Yehuda's email archive is <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012AprJun/0762.html> On 5/16/12 10:13 PM, ext Ojan Vafai wrote: > In principle, I agree with this as a valid goal. It's one among many > though, so the devil is in the details of each specific proposal to > balance out this goal with others (e.g. keeping the platform > consistent). I'd love to see your list of proposals of what it would > take to considerably shrink jQuery. > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com > <mailto:wycats@gmail.com>> wrote: > > In the past year or so, I've participated in a number of threads > that were implicitly about adding features to browsers that would > shrink the size of existing libraries. > > Inevitably, those discussions end up litigating whether making it > easier for jQuery (or some other library) to do the task is a good > idea in the first place. > > While those discussions are extremely useful, I feel it would be > useful for a group to focus on proposals that would shrink the > size of existing libraries with the implicit assumption that it > was a good idea. > > From some basic experimentation I've personally done with the > jQuery codebase, I feel that such a group could rather quickly > identify enough areas to make a much smaller version of jQuery > that ran on modern browsers plausible. I also think that having > data to support or refute that assertion would be useful, as it's > often made casually in meta-discussions. > > If there is a strong reason that people feel that a focused effort > to identify ways to shrink existing popular libraries in new > browsers would be a bad idea, I'd be very interested to hear it. > > Thanks so much for your consideration, > > Yehuda Katz > jQuery Foundation > (ph) 718.877.1325 <tel:718.877.1325> > >
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