How do you deal with the time it takes to *parse* a large Javascript file? Past ...

enomar · on April 18, 2009

Are you minifying your javascript?

500KB is pretty huge. Does every user need that? Perhaps you can use a smaller bootstrap script to pull down only what's needed when it's needed.

aristus · on April 18, 2009

Sure -- it's basically half of YUI. Unminified it's 2.2MB. I've found that the time it takes to parse and load (not download) the javascript can be significant. I get away with showing content quickly and loading scripts in the background while the user is reading.