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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 128);font-family:Arial">Please explain why you consider concatenating JavaScript sources dirty.</span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't necessarily think it's dirty, but any choices that game the system for purely performance reasons seem hackish to me. Concatenating js files for performance reasons is certainly less offensive than css sprites, but it still begs the question: is this always the right choice. For example, let's say I'm using jQuery plus a few plugins. The resources are really separate entities from third parties. Should I have to concatenate them?</div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, there is clearly not much interest for this proposal here. I graciously concede :)</div><div><br></div><div>-Russ</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Kristof Zelechovski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl" target="_blank">giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Please explain why you consider
concatenating JavaScript sources dirty. You can have a library of all JavaScript
definitions relevant to your site in one source file and I am not sure what is
wrong with it, except that a library should consist of books, but that concept was
already broken long ago.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Chris</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> <a href="mailto:whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org" target="_blank">whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org" target="_blank">whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Russell Leggett<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Peter Kasting<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:whatwg@whatwg.org" target="_blank">whatwg@whatwg.org</a><div><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [whatwg] Application
deployment</div></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">It seems to me that many of the additions to the HTML
spec are there because they provide a standard way to do something we are
already doing with a hack or more complicated means. </span>CSS sprites are
clearly a hack. Concatenating js files are clearly a hack. Serving from
multiple sub-domains to beat the connection limit is also a
workaround. My proposal is intended to approach the deployment issue directly,
because I think it is a limitation in the html spec itself and therefore, I
think the html spec should provide its own solution. My proposal may not be the
best way, but assuming the issue will be dealt with eventually by some other
party through some other means does not seem right either.</font></p>
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