RE: [Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI Makefile/code compression almost complete]

[Cameron H. <ca...@bi...>]

> What I meant (can't say about Cameron), was that it would be nice
> to have all of the functionality of the API without even worrying if it is
> cross browser compatible.
<snip>
> If I could _only_ include IE code when I
> knew it was the standard, then I could speed things up some.... maybe even
a lot.
> maybe I'm dreaming

It would be smaller and faster in all cases because the client would only
load and run code specific to
their browser. for example, if (is.ie) ... would only get executed once when
the client needed to select the ie specific version of the API to load at
run time.

That's pretty much the rational behind my suggestion. I'd seen a bit of
discussion on the list about splitting the API source into different .js
files for different browsers, the right one being imported when the user
visits the page. IMHO splitting the API into browser specific .js files
sounds like a bad idea, keeping the source together and letting a Makefile
split it would be safer. Of course none of the developers have said they
were going to split the API in this fashion. I imagine that doing this would
be a hell of a lot of work, and you probably all have more important things
to do :-)

However if it ever did happen, I think a Makefile solution with #define and
#ifdef style macros would be a good way of acheiving this.