Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

What aspect of jquery were you thinking?

On 1/5/11 11:44 AM, Leif Johansson wrote:
> have you considered reusing the jquery framework?
>
> 5 jan 2011 kl. 17:35 skrev "Rod 
> Widdowson"<>:
>
> > Beta1 of the EDS ships with all the JavaScript as written.  This is quite 
> > large (58k) and comes as 3 files (hence three HTML
> > requests)
> >
> > For later betas and production we are changing the distribution to be a 
> > configuration JavaScript file and the a second JavaScript
> > file consisting of the 3 source files munged together in some manner.  
> > "Packer" seems to do quite nicely of the minification (down
> > to 15k), but I'm not wedded to that.  The aim is to save download size and 
> > HTML requests...
> >
> > My question is how to perform this packaging?  Right now I am hand 
> > concatenating the JavaScript files and then shoving them up into
> > one of the many minification web sites (for instance 
> > http://dean.edwards.name/packer/).  This is cumbersome but effective, although
> > it leaves me slightly nervous about Trojans.
> >
> > The aim is that eventually the EDS will be shipped with the Shibboleth SP 
> > (and with any other SP what wishes to use it).  But I do
> > not want to impose yet another tool on people who want to build the SP from 
> > source.
> >
> > At the other extreme is somehow seems wrong to check the output of the 
> > minification process back into SVN (sort of like checking in
> > the .class files as well as the .java ones).
> >
> > A mid-point might have (qualified) minification tools checked in alongside 
> > the JavaScript and have some sort of build script, but
> > this is only slightly nicer than requiring the tool to be installed as part 
> > of the SP build.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Rod

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