[Pkg-javascript-commits] [backbone] 01/19: Framework sizes are controversial and hard to measure, best to be hand-wavey...

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commit c0f602e716ecd7579d0e3c946a896fdae59c8ed3
Author: Jeremy Ashkenas <jashkenas at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 13 14:13:41 2010 -0400

    Framework sizes are controversial and hard to measure, best to be hand-wavey...
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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 0318284..31b29c5 100644
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@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@
       principles to JavaScript applications. However, there isn't much basis
       for comparsion. SproutCore and Cappuccino provide rich UI widgets, vast
       core libraries, and determine the structure of your HTML for you.
-      Loading the "Hello World" of SproutCore includes <i>2.5 megabytes</i> of JavaScript on the
-      page; the "Hello World" of Cappuccino includes <i>1.7 megabytes</i> of JS and images,
-      as measured with the Webkit inspector.
-      Backbone is a <i>2 kilobyte</i> include (packed, gzipped) that provides
+      Both frameworks measure in the hundreds of kilobytes when packed and
+      gzipped, and megabytes of JavaScript, CSS, and images when loaded in the browser
+      — there's a lot of room underneath for libraries of a more moderate scope.
+      Backbone is a <i>2 kilobyte</i> include that provides
       just the core concepts of models, events (key-value binding), collections,
       views, and persistence. A much closer relative to Backbone is
       <a href="http://benpickles.github.com/js-model/">js-model</a>.

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