[Dojo-interest] dojo.require(), Shrinksafe and compression

[Daniel]

I just made a big compressed file with ShrinkSafe. It packs 21 files 
from dijit, dojo.data and dojox.

- Do I still need the dojo.require() lines?
- Will including hose lines cause Dojo to download the original files? 
Or will it realize that the widgets are already downloaded?
- Most of the 21 files are dependencies. What if I forgot one? Will the 
dojo.require() lines download the one file I might have forgotten?

Thanks for the help.

Best,
Daniel.


Daniel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ShrinkSafe looks very cool:
> 
> http://shrinksafe.dojotoolkit.org/
> 
> I would like to use it to compress not only my files, but more 
> importantly those of Dojo. The problem is that I don't know what files I 
> need. My understanding is that dojo.require() does dependency 
> resolution, so if you have dojo.require("dijit.Foo") that might actually 
> download 2 or 3 other files in addition to dijit/Foo.js
> 
> Is there a way for me to know, based on my require() lines, which files 
> I need?
> 
> For my app I need to use a lot of different widgets, and I'm very 
> interested in compressing them as much as possible.
> 
> If possible, I'd also like to compress the CSS and HTML templates that 
> Dojo uses.
> 
> For further compression, I plan to send gzip-compressed files to 
> browsers that can handle it like Firefox. Does anyone know which 
> browsers can handle gzip compressed files? I know that I don't need that 
> information, I'm just curious.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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