[Plugin: Live Comment Preview] Caching the JS script

  • Fernando Serer

    (@fserer)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hi! and congratulations for this plugin!

    I’m caching in client side all static files as JS scripts for server performance and better user experience.

    I would like to know if you are considering (or it’s possible) to include the JS script for your plugin in a ‘regular’ cacheable way like:

    myserver.com/wp-content/plugins/live-comment-preview/live-comment-preview.js

    instead of:
    myserver.com/?live-comment-preview.js

    could save 13KB’s on every page load (or 4 KB if gzipped)

    also including the version number as many other plugins do is a good idea as it will invalidate the client side cached version:

    server.com/wp-content/plugins/live-comment-preview/live-comment-preview.js?ver=1.9

    best regards

    Fernando

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  • Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    It can be packed using http://dean.edwards.name/packer/

    monodistortion

    (@monodistortion)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    The javascript for this plugin is a little tricky because it is generated dynamically and customized by a function in live-comment-preview.php. That’s why it’s called with the query ?live-comment-preview.js. I was looking into forcing it to cache in the browser but I think that may break the way the gravatar IDs are generated dynamically. Making the entire javascript static looked like a lot more hacking than I was willing to try.

    I was able to generate a gzipped file by changing line 72 from:

    header(‘Content-type: text/javascript’);

    to:

    ob_start (“ob_gzhandler”); //compress with gzip if possible
    header(‘Content-type: text/javascript’);

    This reduces the javascript file size from 13.4KB to 4.4KB.

    monodistortion

    (@monodistortion)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Oh, as a side note, the md5.js file can be minified to save a few K. I was just doing some research and this site looks interesting:
    http://compressorrater.thruhere.net/

    You can compare the compression of four different javascript compressors (before and after gzip).

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