Optimizing Jquery and plugins

[mr_nabo]

Hi,

I love Jquery and try not to go overboard with it, but am wondering whether there's a lightweight way of including it instead of including up the 100kb or so library everytime?

For example, I want to use a plugin which requires JQuery, but using it adds around 120kb to my site because the plugin is around 20kb and JQuery 100kb!

Is there a standard procedure of including reduced versions of these kinds of things in your websites?

Thanks for any advice

[edited by: phranque at 2:12 pm (utc) on Nov. 21, 2008]
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[mr_nabo]

Hi,

Is this an active part of Webmasterworld or would it be better to post this elsewhere to get some help? Other areas seem to be quite busy with comments...

Thanks

[astupidname]

On the download page for jquery it is available minified or packed at 54.5kb or 30.3 kb so you don't have to send the uncompressed (97.8kb) version over the wire.