[Chameleon] compress Chameleon javascript

[Delfos, Jacob]

Or possibly even better, applying compression to all output from the
Apache server, as in:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html

I tried the line:

 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

But firefox did not indicate a change in document size (which may not
mean it didn't work).
Has anyone ever experimented with this?

Regards

Jacob



> -----Original Message-----
> From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org 
> [mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of 
> Delfos, Jacob
> Sent: 12 May 2006 07:09
> To: Paul Spencer
> Cc: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: RE: [Chameleon] compress Chameleon javascript
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I just tried applying gzip compression on the actual page (main
> document), by adding "ob_start("ob_gzhandler");" to the start of
> index.phtml, which launches the site. According to Firefox, 
> the document
> size went down from 200kb to 31kb. That is huge, considering the main
> page is loaded everytime a layer is changed. Is there any 
> objection that
> you know of against doing this?
> 
> Internet explorer reported the same filesize, though. Is this 
> because it
> reports the filesize after compression? Is there a way to test this?
> 
> Would it be possible to run index.phtml through a script like
> getcjs.php?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jacob
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca] 
> > Sent: 11 May 2006 18:24
> > To: Delfos, Jacob
> > Cc: Eijnden, B. van den (Bart); Bart van den Eijnden; 
> > chameleon at lists.maptools.org
> > Subject: Re: [Chameleon] compress Chameleon javascript
> > 
> > For the record, I didn't change the algorithm :)  I just added  
> > multiple files and removed the assumption of .js and added the  
> > ob_start with gzip compression.  I found its about 8 times  
> > compression of javascript (about 4 with just gzip and 2 with  
> > whitespace/comment removal)
> > 
> > It would be nice if we re-worked chameleon to spit all its 
> > javascript  
> > out into a single, temporary javascript file that could be cached/ 
> > loaded like this.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > On 11-May-06, at 3:31 AM, Delfos, Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Bart,
> > >
> > > I have modified the Ka-Map version to work with 
> Chameleon, though  
> > > it would require a bit of alternations to Chameleon to 
> make use of  
> > > the feature of compressing multiple JavaScript files to 
> one stream.
> > >
> > > I have attached the new file. UIManager.php had to be changed,  
> > > because the new getcjs.php expects ".js" extensions.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > Jacob
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Eijnden, B. van den (Bart)  
> > > [mailto:b.vdeijnden at agi.rws.minvenw.nl]
> > > Sent: 11 May 2006 14:34
> > > To: Delfos, Jacob; Bart van den Eijnden; 
> > chameleon at lists.maptools.org
> > > Subject: RE: [Chameleon] compress Chameleon javascript
> > >
> > > Hi Jacob,
> > >
> > > cool, could you please backfix the missing semi-colon to the 2.4  
> > > branch?
> > >
> > > Also, the ka-map script removes comments and whitespace, 
> but also  
> > > sends the javascript gzip compressed. You should check that 
> > one out  
> > > (I have attached it), I am sure you can get it to go be 
> > around 50 Kb.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Bart
> > >
> > > <JS_compress2.zip>
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> > 
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