Triexa.com — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:26:38 +0000

Greg K;210062 wrote: I have seen programs before that shrink source code by not only eliminating whitespace, but also by replacing all variable names with 2 letter ones. Yes the final code is confusing to read, but that is why you keep the original. Some sites, every singe byte saved can count.

-Greg

Are you able to point to any that do this?

Greg K — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:15:37 +0000

I have seen programs before that shrink source code by not only eliminating whitespace, but also by replacing all variable names with 2 letter ones. Yes the final code is confusing to read, but that is why you keep the original. Some sites, every singe byte saved can count.

-Greg

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:30:02 +0000

Triexa.com;210042 wrote: umm its protoype, WELL known javascript framework. It happens to be that size of a file.

Oh right. Might be an idea to capitalise proper nouns to avoid confusion in future.

Triexa.com — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:13:44 +0000

umm its protoype, WELL known javascript framework. It happens to be that size of a file.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:55:11 +0000

Triexa.com;210035 wrote: I compacted the prototype from 60 to 40KB. That's 20kb every non-cached request. You can't possible sit there and tell me that's pointless savings.

20kB isn't much of a savings, imo, not when you're satisfied with 40kB scripts. Why do you have 20kB of whitespace anyway? And a 40-60kB script?

I'd use a regular expression replacement to delete whitespace, if there was that much. No need for any extra tools.

Triexa.com — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:50:11 +0000

Abhishek Reddy;210033 wrote: I don't. Trying to hide client-side Javascript code is like trying to hide XHTML: futile. Since your program must be transferred in whole, to be read in text form by the client, there is no way you can hide it from the user.

As with markup code, you may save a kilobyte or two by compacting whitespace, but the payoff isn't really worth the effort.

I compacted the prototype from 60 to 40KB. That's 20kb every non-cached request. You can't possible sit there and tell me that's pointless savings.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:40:42 +0000

I don't. Trying to hide client-side Javascript code is like trying to hide XHTML: futile. Since your program must be transferred in whole, to be read in text form by the client, there is no way you can hide it from the user.

As with markup code, you may save a kilobyte or two by compacting whitespace, but the payoff isn't really worth the effort.