Comments on The official Google Code blog: Reversing Code Bloat with the JavaScript Knowledge Base

This is especially crucial for mobile, where every...

2010-06-16T19:38:57.097-07:00

This is especially crucial for mobile, where every byte that comes down the wire really counts. And it doesn't make sense to include a ton of bugfixes for old desktop browsers!

I like this approach, as you can still develop with one code repository and yet have all this "feature branching" occur at compile time.

2010-06-16T05:20:40.488-07:00

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Russel, I tested the Caja Web Tools minifier with ...

2010-06-15T18:05:09.468-07:00

Russel, I tested the Caja Web Tools minifier with jquery version 1.4.3pre and all the tests run green with Firefox optimizations on when run on Firefox.

I don't quite understand under what conditions some major components like Sizzle could be optimized out, but if there are some browsers where sizzle is redundant, I could definitely expand the JSKB to include feature tests for native CSS selector support.

Thanks guys, You wrote this just as I was looking ...

2010-06-15T16:48:12.267-07:00

Thanks guys,
You wrote this just as I was looking for a way to strip jQuery down to essentials for webkit-only browsers :D