Caching specific Javascript and CSS files

Question

How can I cache a few specific JavaScript & CSS files. I found advice from this site to put this in my .htaccess file

AddOutputFilter DEFLAT         


        

Answer 1

That's cool i would anyways add a file revisions and make IIS cache css + js files. As Icarus specified.

Then if you update the files on the server just add a new revision number this could also be a timestamp.

• http://particletree.com/notebook/automatically-version-your-css-and-javascript-files/
• http://davidwalsh.name/prevent-cache (just the opposite)
• http://betterexplained.com/articles/speed-up-your-javascript-load-time/
• http://www.die.net/musings/page_load_time/
• http://ajaxpatterns.org/Patterns#Performance_Optimisation