Comments on: MasterWish – Practicing What I Preach

By: blog

blog — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:07:37 +0000

By: Nguyen

Nguyen — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:23:31 +0000

i want to download moo moo defense v1.6.Plz tell me how to download thank very much

By: kontol

kontol — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:54:55 +0000

ini web kyk kontol , gw cari map moomoo 1.5 di klik linkny malah bounce back ke halaman awal. apa seh mksdnya bikin web ini…. kontol lah

By: johnny

johnny — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:51:23 +0000

Another really nice, great and original comment.

By: BorkWeb » Speeding Up Prototype’s $$ Selector

BorkWeb » Speeding Up Prototype’s $$ Selector — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:07:29 +0000

[...] Prototype, as I’ve stated in the past, is our Javascript library of choice for Ajax at Plymouth State University and in the current re-writing of MasterWish. As of version 1.5 of Prototype there has been a sweet Selector function $$ which is best used when manipulating more than one dom element of the same type…i.e. updating all buddies in a buddy list at MasterWish with some property. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:04:30 +0000

@sp

Thanks for your comment and your points are valid ones. I will take this into extreme consideration while re-working MasterWish. Perhaps I’ll look to Moo.fx as a way to exclude the javascript that isn’t needed. Because, lets face it…there are a lot of functionality in Prototype that is sexy but not entirely needed. Lightweight is key, as you have pointed out and speed is still an important aspect of the web. I guess you have just directed me to my next research topic! Thanks :)

By: sp

sp — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:53:26 +0000

I`m not sure my comment is appropriate here, but still.
I say: huge included libraries are bad, at least when your connection is slow or your internet cost depends on traffic. (If you have unlimited broadband connection, you shouldn`t read the following grumbling).

One of ajax`s key features is the ability to create load-on-demand applications, where you do not need to get the data if you don`t actually interested in it. But more often I see another situation: before loading a page with 20 kilobytes of text, I have to load 300KB of javascript. (see http://developer.mozilla.org for instance. But you`ll need a slow connection or a traffic meter if you want to see the effect ;)).

You have to get me right. I do like javascript, ajax and all that web 2.0 stuff. But, hey, this isn`t local programming where you can simply include stdlib.h and turn your ‘hello world’ program into a two megabyte monster after compilation.

So, I say: take the functions that you really need, use standart ways of class creation, try to minimize your code, while all those little children in Afr… in Russia have slow modems and evil greedy providers.

Of course, maybe this is just a question of time, and in a couple (couple?) of years that won`t be a problem for almost anyone in the Internet to download 5-6 megabytes of prototype library each time they want to check the Firefox downloads number, but…