A nice gambit
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting post tonight on how JavaScript is slowing down the web and a few fine suggestions are made for the contemplation of JavaScript junkies.
The third, "load-balance requests by generating different URLs", although perfectly reasonable to those of us who were around in the 1990s, would benefit from a little refinement:
Get a load balancer - better yet, get a pair.
Use a content delivery network (CDN) to provide static files from a server close to user - data charges might be cheap in California, but that's 230ms from me!
While we're at it, good JavaScript citizen might follow Yahoo's lead and try to keep things clean by introducing as few objects as possible into the global namespace. For example, YUI adds only one object - YAHOO. This not only assists in getting everything to play nicely, but greatly speeds debugging.
And finally...
... long live Firebug!
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