I came across the following quote in a blog entry today:<br><br>"The initial implementation I was working with utilized <a href="http://openlayers.org/">OpenLayers</a>, ... Unfortunately the size of the library seems to be constantly increasing (~200K in the last year) and currently weighs in at 560K uncompressed ... " [1]<br>
<br>...which got me thinking. <br><br>Just now I did a build of the latest from trunk, and it clocked in at 566k. Doing a 'lite' build gives 115k.<br><br>It seems like maybe we could do better than that?<br><br>Someone referred me once to a post by John Resig about JS compression [2] that I thought was pretty interesting. It touched on the use of 'Packer' and the YUI Minimizer. <br>
<br>As usual, I don't really have the time to go much further into this, but I thought that if anyone else out there was experiencing the same problems with the size of the library, this might make for an interesting side project. <br>
<br>Erik <br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://cwjen888.blogspot.com/2009/01/viewing-large-images-openlayers-gsiv.html">http://cwjen888.blogspot.com/2009/01/viewing-large-images-openlayers-gsiv.html</a><br>[2] <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/library-loading-speed/">http://ejohn.org/blog/library-loading-speed/</a><br>
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