Comments on: Robert Nyman’s DomAssistant 2.5 A Lightweight JS Library Powerful Enough To Take On The Big Boys.

By: nate koechley

nate koechley — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:53:31 +0000

Ahh, that makes sense – I should have thought of that. Thanks for the followup!

By: Don Albrecht

Don Albrecht — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:57:15 +0000

I’ve updated the post to reflect the difference between library size & download size.

Nate, Thank you again for catching that.

By: Don Albrecht

Don Albrecht — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:46:20 +0000

Thanks for catching that,

The 21kb is the compressed, unzippped version.

6 kb is the size delivered gzipped.

By: nate koechley

nate koechley — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:48:15 +0000

In the first sentence you say it’s 6kb, but in the first “bullet point” you quote that it’s 21kb compressed. I’m not familiar with how the library is structured, but perhaps that’s the basis for the discrepancy? Could you elaborate please?

Thanks,
Nate

(Full disclosure: I’m an engineer on Yahoo!’s YUI team. But I’m asking out of personal curiosity.)