[dev] [cvs] commit: horde/services javascript.php horde/scripts/jsmin Makefile jsmin.c framework/Horde Horde.php horde/docs CHANGES horde/config conf.xml

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but the purpose of this script was to
>> compress static javascript files (after installation, not in the
>> distribution).
>> Compressing our small php-generated js files on the fly seems a bad
>> tradeoff compared to bandwith usage to me, especially if you already
>> use output compression.
>
> I agree, I am not in favor of this implementation. I'd like to see this
> removed and have us, for static JS files, store a src/ version of the
> full one and the compressed version for production use.
>
> Another reason I don't like this on-the-fly compression is that it
> means that any error line numbers in a js console aren't going to match
> a file. With compressed and full versions, at least you can match up
> the appropriate code.

All right, sounds like this is a resounding no.  Although, as final 
food for thought, remember that there is a *large* percentage of 
popular browsers that don't support compression (i.e. IE 5.5, IE 6.0).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]