[geojquery] Size of the resulting JS stack

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

On 15.03.2010, at 13:57, Yves Moisan wrote:
> Would a GeoJquery "UI" stack that would have the equivalent of what  
> GeoExt delivers (or will deliver) be much smaller ?  I don't know  
> much of JQuery.  I know there's JQuery UI, but I also gather there's  
> someting called JQuery Tools that compresses to 5 kB and offers a  
> bunch of UI goodies.  So, what would be the resulting JQuery* stack  
> componentwise and sizewise like ?

Hard to say how big GeoJQuery UI will grow, but ExtJS is pretty heavy  
with 600k. You can get OpenLayers down to a reasonably size if you  
don't need all features (say 300k). With GZip you are down to a third  
of the original size. So 1.5MB of JS is 500KB to download and this  
affects only the first visit, if you do client side caching. If you  
use WMS, every image might be larger than all your JS.

Regards,
Oliver

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