Can I remove the "prototype" and "scriptaculous" javascripts ??

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chucky Reply #1, 18 years, 4 months ago

Hi ! I just finished designing my new modx template, but i found two javascripts in the <head> of the default template, scriptaculous.js and prototype.js
those files weigh 30ko !!
can i remove them ?? ( are those scripts only used by the "quickedit" function ? i do not use it so ... )

i’m not a native english speaker, sorry if there are any mistakes !

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sottwell Reply #2, 18 years, 4 months ago

Remove them and see what breaks! I love trial-and-error! If you don’t use quickedit it shouldn’t hurt anything.

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chucky Reply #3, 18 years, 4 months ago

i removed it, it seems it didn’t broke anything
but the quickedit function is still there huh

and maybe the all the statistics functions depend on those scripts ?

thx

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sottwell Reply #4, 18 years, 4 months ago

To kill QuickEdit, go into the QuickEdit plugin and check the "Plugin Disabled" box.

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chucky Reply #5, 18 years, 4 months ago

thanks, i could disable it,

but are those scripts used by the statistics or access control functions ( or anythings else except visual effects ) ??
or are they just visual effects ?

thanks

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Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #6, 18 years, 4 months ago

Dont worry, those are only visual effects

regards,

zi

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chucky Reply #7, 18 years, 4 months ago

thanks for answering so quickly !

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aNoble Reply #8, 18 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: chucky at Dec 20, 2005, 10:53 AM

but are those scripts used by the statistics or access control functions ( or anythings else except visual effects ) ??
or are they just visual effects ?

QuickEdit has to place the scripts in the header for it’s own purposes. However, this will only happen when you are logged in as a manager user. Normal visitors should see your own template unaltered. Simply disabling the QuickEdit plugin as Susan suggested should remove the headers and QuickEdit.

Scriptaculous is mostly visual but there is a good bit of functionality there too (draggable elements and controls for instance) and prototype.js is almost completely non-visual (except for a couple of show/hide functions).

The scripts are fairly large for javascript but because it’s only manager users it won’t affect your normal visitor so I chose to use them instead of writing my own solutions from scratch.

Hope this helps.

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