[wp-hackers] Slim WordPress by way of Google Ajax API?

[Joost de Valk]

On May 27, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Matt Patenaude wrote:

> It does sound like a great idea.
>
> But how would this affect loading time? The browser has to go to  
> another domain to grab the Ajax API  JS file, and then has to make  
> another round-trip to load the JS library?
>
> A simplified API is great, but does it have to be remotely hosted?  
> What if, for instance, WordPress had its own JavaScript API-- you  
> could put the code for each JS library in the database, and then the  
> first time the file was requested, it could create a text-based  
> cache of the file with the appropriate settings. Then, if the  
> version of the code in the DB was updated, it could automatically  
> replace the cached file.
>
> Not trying to go off-topic here, but just saying. I like the  
> premise, but the fact that it's remotely hosted worries me (even if  
> it is Google).
>
> -Matt

We've seen Google kill API's before... (remember their SOAP search API  
anyone?) So I would not start relying on it, but for themes it could  
rock.

Best,
Joost


>
> On May 27, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Ronald Heft wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a great idea. I'm down for using the AJAX API to serve
>> WordPress' Javascript.
>>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I hope y'all saw this and thought "Hmm, a chance to strip JS  
>>> libraries
>>> entirely out of the equation":
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/
>>>
>>> Thoughts?  Applicability to core WP?  I see a good deal of utility
>>> there, meself...
>>>
>>> --
>>> -Doug
>>> http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
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>>
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