Jquip (jQuery-in-parts) releases a library builder service

To be honest, given that most people load jQuery from a CDN anyway, all this does is make you trust the library you're using less – the beautiful thing about jQuery is that it works, and you never have to worry about what methods are made available to you.

Really like the idea of this but it is SO far away from '90% of jquery'.

I tried using it on my site (with all parts) and litterally NONE of the jquery worked. There is no hover support, no 'attr', no animation and val doesn't work with checkboxes.

You would have to build a site from scratch with this in mind, it is not a drop-in solution for most people.

Is minified jQuery really the bottleneck for your bandwidth? Particularly when big companies CDN it...

I wonder if the savings in script size and parse time matter if jQuery is referenced from a CDN [1]. It may save 500ms (or less depending on the mobile browser) with the small size and parse time, but it may also add 500ms (or more on slow mobile networks) in latency.

[1] http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/05/11/cdn-performance-download...

It would be great if I could scan my current js and build the jquip based on that. Actually, there should be a tool that removes all unnecessary code that's never called. Might be hard or impossible to get that working reliably though.

I'm migrating a Phonegap app from Backbone + jQuery Mobile to Backbone + zepto + jQM's CSS. I might use jquip instead.

Parse time is very important on mobiles. jQuery -> zepto shaved off more than 500ms in startup time.

Very cool! If you're looking for possible improvements it would be sweet to see how much size each of the options added.

I'm clearly not the target market for this. I use pretty much every "plugin" they've got with every project.