I'd be concerned that the beautifier might break our code. In my experience,
every compressor we tried did. Which is why we wrote our own.
Also, I thought that Firebug had something like this built in (and that it even
prettifies compressed code)?
On 2011-06-08, at 06:43, Raju Bitter wrote:
> What's more readable? Even if it's "only" the indentation...
>
> Original JS code:
> /* -*- file: compiler/Class.lzs#150 -*- */
> Instance.prototype.addProperty("nextMethod", (function () {
> /* -*- file: #150 -*- */
> var $lzsc$temp = function (currentMethod, nextMethodName) {
> var next_$0;
> if (currentMethod.hasOwnProperty("$superclass")) {
> next_$0 = currentMethod.$superclass.prototype[nextMethodName]
> } else if (currentMethod.hasOwnProperty("$superclasses")) {
> var $1 = currentMethod.$superclasses;
> for (var i_$2 = $1.length - 1;i_$2 >= 0;i_$2--) {
> var sc_$3 = $1[i_$2];
> if (this instanceof sc_$3) {
> next_$0 = sc_$3.prototype[nextMethodName];
> break
> }}};
>
> Beautified:
> Instance.prototype.addProperty("nextMethod", (function() { /* -*-
> file: #150 -*- */
> var $lzsc$temp = function(currentMethod, nextMethodName) {
> var next_$0;
> if (currentMethod.hasOwnProperty("$superclass")) {
> next_$0 = currentMethod.$superclass.prototype[nextMethodName]
> } else if (currentMethod.hasOwnProperty("$superclasses")) {
> var $1 = currentMethod.$superclasses;
> for (var i_$2 = $1.length - 1; i_$2 >= 0; i_$2--) {
> var sc_$3 = $1[i_$2];
> if (this instanceof sc_$3) {
> next_$0 = sc_$3.prototype[nextMethodName];
> break
> }
> }
> };
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:12 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The compiler does not "uglify" the JS code when compiled in debug mode, so
>> there should not be any need to beautify. "Uglification" (compression,
>> obfuscation) should only happen when you are running in non-debug mode.
>>
>> On 2011-06-08, at 04:45, Raju Bitter wrote:
>>
>>> Have you ever thought of beautifying the generated JavaScript code in
>>> debug mode for the DHTML runtime? It would make the code a lot more
>>> readable when debugging the DHTML runtime. Same is true for the
>>> LFCdhtml-debug.js.
>>>
>>> A good tool would be https://github.com/einars/js-beautify
>>
>>
