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

[Julian Fitzell]

I think it's fine except for the issue of needing an internet
connection to develop, which is kind of unfortunate. Maybe we could
also add some code somewhere that downloads the files, stores them in
the squeak directory, and serves them up via seaside. That way you
could decide to do that after installing Seaside if desired?

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:04 PM, 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
>
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