Re: JavaScript Compression

["Peter Connell" <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have always presumed that browser caching helps avoid some of the
problems with lots of javascript.

Anyway, I did exploit the script compression/obfuscation provided by
MicroSoft a few years back.
I can't remember the name of the Microsoft executable now but it was
simply a matter of applying it to the script once it was clear there was
no further development. The users in this case were all assured to be
using IE.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 3:06 p.m.
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] JavaScript Compression


I recently began looking at JavaScript compression options.  Some of the

tools I tried obfuscate the code in addition to compressing it.  All of 
the tools I tried created code that wasn't runable, which seemed like an

irony to me.  I finally created a CL command and RPG program to compress

all JavaScript files in one directory and output them to another.  My 
compression algorithm is pretty basic;  It removes all comments and 
attempts to remove unnecessary white space, but doesn't do anything 
fancy to obfuscate the code.  Is anybody else compressing their 
JavaScript?  Have a recommended tool?

Thanks,

Nathan.