>> Today I came across this article via DZone: >> >> http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/08/13/introducing-the-yui-comp... >> >> "The YUI Compressor is a new JavaScript minifier. > <snip> > > FWIW, I still think, ESC <http://www.saltstorm.net/depo/esc/> is >better.
The problem with any RegExp based solution is that there are certain cases (depending on how much "compression" is going on) where the application will fail. The idea behind compression tools that use Rhino is they actually have the ability to parse the JS and really understand how the variables work--which allows for things such as more accurate variable replacement. -Dan
