Matej just committed a nice optimization for packaged Javascript references. We already compressed them, like we do with CSS references, but now, if you’re in deployment (production) mode, Wicket will also strip comments and some whitespace on the fly. Of course, the results of the compression and stripping are cached (soft references) so we’ll keep it from eating your processor.
The great thing about this optimization is that you can just develop Wicket components that use Javascript dependencies (like YUI or Dojo for instance) without having to use the production versions of those scripts (like the xx-min.js variants of YUI). Instead, you can use the source files with complete comments and formatting, without having to worry that will impact your production system.
Didn’t know gzip was turned on for javascripts. IE 6 has problems with gzip-compressed js files, if it’s loading something intense like FCK editor (which I don’t recommend using anyway, or any other rich text editor). It seemed to work fine for simpler scripts, so I guess we’re ok. And, you know, message to the Internet: please please please let Windows upgrade you to IE 7.
I came across an issue in Microsoft’s bug database, but that seems to have been fixed since a while.
Maybe so. This was about a year ago that we were having problems with the then-latest IE 6.
The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)