Re: Is your vbulletin too fat?
 

To the person who locked the thread. The javascript that I've compressed is available on the client side and is downloaded by every browser. All I've done is make it smaller for use with vbulletin, it's not like I'm distributing the entire vbulletin source code.

You know who locked it as i even replied that i locked it. If you have questions about this action (or any other moderating action) then please take it up with the staff member in PM.

PS You are distributing copyrighted material. It does not make a difference if you distribute 1 file, a few files or the whole package.

Moving on from the copyright infringement I think Noodles has hit upon a good point. The javascript in vbulletin should be compressed. At the moment these use a massive amount of space (compared with other javascript libraries such as jQuery).

Of course an uncompressed version should remain available to license holders who wish to explore the files in an easy to read format.

Hardly something i would worry about. Most servers will already use mod_deflate / GZip / etc... to compress output. Also will they be cached after the first use on the client side with most browsers.

The problem is js/css isn't gzip'ed by default and shouldn't be as IE6 and a few other older browsers have problems with uncompressing js. You'd be surprised at how many sites don't use compression on js/css.

As for replying in the forum instead of PM'ing you, sorry about that, I was on my way to bed after a long day and didn't think about it.