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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Richter
7dcf798f8a
Optimize javascript load times
Our application JS is bloated with minified libraries, while our actual
application Javascript barely amounts to more than two hundred lines.
I propose removing these libraries from our sass file, and instead
load them as separate resources in `<link>` and `<script>` tags.

This has several advantages:

 - By using common CDNs, users are likely to have many of these libraries
   cached already.
 - Even if the files aren't cached, the CDN is likely to deliver them
   faster.
 - We can use the HTML5 'async' attribute to load these libraries
   asynchronously, so users aren't held up while they download.
 - Our fully compiled application JS is much, much smaller, which
   reduces the load on our host.

Also, on the topic of load times, I realized that in #152 that one of the
images was a PNG, not a JPG. I had tried optimizing the image, but I didn't
realize that it wasn't a JPG like the others. Here, I converted it to a JPG,
and it is significantly smaller, and it is visually unchanged.

I'm having some difficulty testing on my local machine, so I would appreciate
some additional manual testing before merging this.
2016-11-02 23:41:00 -05:00
Andrew Carreiro
e74b41f422 Adding a few keyboard commands as well as a simple dialog to give help 2016-10-14 00:46:03 -04:00
Andrew Brown
06c6b0ce89 Merge resolution 2015-03-13 20:12:42 -05:00
Andrew Brown
bb7c5eeee4 rails app 2012-12-22 17:39:34 -06:00