Reduce HTTP requests or not?

Question

A theoretical question:
We all know about the pro\'s of minifying and combining javascript files in order to reduce HTTP requests to speed up a website. But when popular jav

Answer 1

I think the best approach is to use a minified 'application.js' file (containing all application specific javascript) and then use a service such as Google AJAX Libraries API (found here) to load jQuery, Prototype, etc.