JavaScript management, combining, and minification (7)

Callen

• October 20, 2010 07:20

Interface available through the Theme Manager that allows you to manage JavaScript files. Basically will allow you to combine multiple JavaScript files into "packages" that will be minified before they are served. There are several benefits to this, among them being smaller JavaScript file sizes and less additional resource requests. (Minification is the process by which a JavaScript file's variable names are shortened and unnecessary whitespace is removed.)

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  Callen

  • October 20, 2010 07:28

  Ideally, at some point we will want to make sure this is also served over a compressed protocol such as gzip or deflate. Getting those files combined into at least one file is a big first step toward that goal.

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  Agnes Doue

  • July 19, 2013 05:05

  Has this really not been done yet? Eek. What is the tool that would remove white space from the html and css as well, if not this one?

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  Agnes Doue

  • July 19, 2013 05:09

  Chris, if you can make time for this: How much (approximately) would this limit bandwidth usage, thus, pageload times? Is there anything else that would be more helpful? I would consider giving this all of my votes.

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