Comments on: Google AJAX Libraries API http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/ Essential knowledge for making your web pages faster. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:17:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Steve Souders http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-209 Steve Souders Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:47:31 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-209 Brian: Thanks for the feedback. That was a lot of deep material. I worked hard to use good examples and clear data. It's nice to hear it was well received. The slides are available on my front page: http://stevesouders.com/ (click on the "slides" link next to "Google I/O"). Brian: Thanks for the feedback. That was a lot of deep material. I worked hard to use good examples and clear data. It’s nice to hear it was well received.

The slides are available on my front page: http://stevesouders.com/ (click on the “slides” link next to “Google I/O”).

]]> By: Brian Love http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-208 Brian Love Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:02:46 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-208 Steve: I was able to attend your session at the recent Google I/O conference - great preso. Any chance you will be posting the slides - wanted to share with a couple of my colleagues. Steve: I was able to attend your session at the recent Google I/O conference - great preso. Any chance you will be posting the slides - wanted to share with a couple of my colleagues.

]]> By: Steve Souders http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-207 Steve Souders Fri, 30 May 2008 04:39:09 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-207 Dan: The minified versions were provided by the framework teams themselves. John: The choice of which versions to serve was determined by the framework teams. Dan: The minified versions were provided by the framework teams themselves.

John: The choice of which versions to serve was determined by the framework teams.

]]> By: John http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-206 John Thu, 29 May 2008 03:57:50 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-206 Steve, if you can put in the good word to the API team to host older versions of these libraries that would be awesome! Steve, if you can put in the good word to the API team to host older versions of these libraries that would be awesome!

]]> By: Dan http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-205 Dan Wed, 28 May 2008 20:09:25 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-205 Does anyone know what minification process Google is using? Does anyone know what minification process Google is using?

]]> By: Sameer http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-204 Sameer Wed, 28 May 2008 16:55:30 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-204 Can't wait to use it. Can’t wait to use it.

]]> By: Louis http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-203 Louis Wed, 28 May 2008 14:15:36 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-203 @Jan: I've tested Google CDN and the performances are astonishing ! Here in France, Mootools yui compressed is like 100ms to load according to firebug. Even compared with my version of Mootools (without a lot of components), it's pretty much the same delay to load ! Google has done a terrific work here. Though, the big problem is that they only offer full size versions of the framework, that means useless components are loaded. I think it mainly aims the heavy web apps, but doesn't aim the little uses of JS you can see on blogs for example. @Jan: I’ve tested Google CDN and the performances are astonishing ! Here in France, Mootools yui compressed is like 100ms to load according to firebug. Even compared with my version of Mootools (without a lot of components), it’s pretty much the same delay to load !

Google has done a terrific work here. Though, the big problem is that they only offer full size versions of the framework, that means useless components are loaded.

I think it mainly aims the heavy web apps, but doesn’t aim the little uses of JS you can see on blogs for example.

]]> By: Jan http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-202 Jan Wed, 28 May 2008 09:30:27 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/#comment-202 Sounds good! I was thinking about community-hosting the libraries above, this is even better. I was thinking that adding this link to a page forces the browser to potentially do one DNS lookup more. It would be interesting to know how large the distribution of the above files is, e.g. when the threshold of cache vs. dns lookup is reached. And one more thing: how good is the google CDN outside the US? For example here in Germany many US-based CDNs only have one POP. With 99% of our users coming from Germany using a CDN may actually reduce the speed, since our servers sit right in the second-largest DSL providers main datacentre. Sounds good! I was thinking about community-hosting the libraries above, this is even better.

I was thinking that adding this link to a page forces the browser to potentially do one DNS lookup more.

It would be interesting to know how large the distribution of the above files is, e.g. when the threshold of cache vs. dns lookup is reached.

And one more thing: how good is the google CDN outside the US? For example here in Germany many US-based CDNs only have one POP. With 99% of our users coming from Germany using a CDN may actually reduce the speed, since our servers sit right in the second-largest DSL providers main datacentre.

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