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Re:AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s... by jauco on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @01:41PM (#201220)
It's brings it down to one request _and_ it reduces the filesize. Requests are relatively slow, you want as few as reasonable possible.
Re:AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s... by boucher on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @11:01PM (#201730)
I tend to agree, and I didn't make any claims about the number of requests. But data transfer really isn't all that slow, and 1415 bytes only takes about 10 milliseconds on a dsl connection (and 100ms on dial up), which is insignificant compared to the other factors involved.
Re:AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s... by morbidkk on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @08:28AM (#201992)
and you assume all who are accessing your web application from n number of places over the world have such fast internet access. I doubt