Prototype Compressed


Written on June 28, 2008 – 8:25 pm | by Rene

I am a prototype user, but i want to save some bandwidth using a compressed version, so i start looking for it and i found a compressed version called protopack it includes different versions, just spaces removed ( no eval required ), encrypted(eval required) and gziped version for both. i prefere the just spaces removed version since it dosen’t require use of eval.

Another good option is to use the Google AJAX Libraries API that serves a compressed version of prototype that will be cached by a year and sent with compression headers , you can include it using the full url or the Googles’s API

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  2. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js"></script>
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  4. OR
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  6. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
  7. <script type="text/javascript">
  8. google.load("prototype", "1.6.0.2");
  9. </script>
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You can find compressed versions of scriptaculous, jQuery, MooTools, dojo as well. The bad thing is there are no https support so it wont work for secure sites.

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