Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

It is not using JQuery today.  The use of JQuery will, at best, keep the 
size the same and will likely increase the overall size.  But again, its 
use is *not* the topic of this thread.

On 1/6/11 12:51 PM, Leif Johansson wrote:
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> On 01/06/2011 05:06 PM, Cantor, Scott E. wrote:
> > > It does but that wasn't my point. My point is that packaging is only
> > > a problem if your JS is very large. Re-using JQuery infrastructure an
> > > a selection of good JS plugins will probably reduce the size of the JS
> > > quite a bit.
> >
> > I'm not sure why, it still has to all be hosted by the same site, doesn't
> > it? The browser can't load the same scripts from the cache when they're
> > served by different sites, can it?
>
> Size is reduced because of reduced code duplication. Any JS widget like
> the one the embedded DS is implementing has to do a lot of common stuff
> and all of that is available in JQuery. Since the app is probably using
> JQuery anyway if it is doing JS-based widgets at all then the total size
> of loaded JS component should be reduced.
>
>         Cheers Leif
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