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

Particular to your question about how the big guys of the industry handle client side scripts, you could always look and see. stackoverflow.com seems fine relying on Google's version of the jquery lib. Others most decidedly do not....