On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe. Does anyone have any hard figures on how much good minification actually does, given that the files are being compressed? Even if you tout these extra URL options, where are a pain for developers, every user who reports a JS error will report it as being on line 1 of the file, etc. I'm not convinced it will be worth it if we gzip, especially if we use consistent tab and brace conventions (having "if( " all the time will compress better than sometimes "if( ", sometimes "if (", sometimes "if(", sometimes "if ( ").
I forgot to mention the bug for this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12250