Minify the JavaScript (save time and money)

Thanks for the suggestions! It's important to note that the feedback widget is very dependent upon existing code that we have built up in Get Satisfaction proper. Things like login functions, error notifications, tooltips and positioning helpers are all leveraged in the JS used for the feedback widget. Those features that we developed are in the main javascript bundle for getsatisfaction and depend upon it, and separating them out would be a very hard task given the time constraints we were under.

For the record, I definitely think that we can improve our asset serving. We'll continually improve, and I appreciate your suggesstion.

Note, We only load the Connection portion of yui, to support ajax file uploading.

Now that the google ajax libraries API exists (It didn't when we built all of this), it makes more sense to use that for our libraries.

Minified code is hard to debug, in my experience, and we *always* have bugs. It makes more sense for us, as a small team, to optimize for developer productivity, at the expense of (in my experiments) 10-20 Kb saved for only one request (since we use long-lived client side cache).

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In my perfect world, our stable, battle-tested code would get loaded off of a CDN, be minified and gzipped (where possible), and we would leverage google loader for our base framework. YUI would go away, as we redo the pages that have AJAX file uploads... since Flash 10 breaks flash uploaders, who knows if that will get fixed and we could use that as an alternative. As our site's features have less churn, we can start to separate code into fragments that each page leverages individually.

We're already moving in that direction for our CSS, and we'll get their eventually for our JS.

Thanks!