[Seaside-dev] About including external resources in Seaside packages

[Dale Henrichs]

It makes sense ... especially given GemStone's method size limitations as one more thing to worry about when packaging them up:)

Dale
----- "Lukas Renggli" <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:

| With the release of JQueryUI 1.7.2 I wonder if it still makes sense
| to
| include all this Javascript libraries and CSS stiles directly into
| the
| Seaside code base?
| 
| There are several disadvantages of doing so:
| 
| 1. It is a pain to import the libraries and the 20 JQueryUI CSS
| themes.
| 2. The Javascript and CSS files are relatively large. As a
| consequence
|     - the Monticello package gets large and slow
|     - the change-set size of your image increases drastically with
| every change
| 3. Some Smalltalk do not support String literals of the required
| size.
| 4. For deployment the libraries are not used, thus the whole process
| is sort of a waste of effort.
| 
| As a lightweight solution I propose to embed all files by referring
| to
| the Google AJAX Library server [1]. This is lightweight, performant
| and extremely easy to do. The latest Javascript code is usually
| available within hours after a release.
| 
| The only disadvantages I see is that while development you need to be
| connected to the internet and that Google might track your use of the
| library (but they do that anyway). For deployment it would be
| reasonable to keep the setup, or replace the references with links
| that point to your own server.
| 
| What do you think?
| 
| Lukas
| 
| [1]
| http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/index.html#AjaxLibraries
| 
| -- 
| Lukas Renggli
| http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
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