thanks for your suggestion, Marc.

I have checked the tool and the compression rates are better than JSMin's.

While JSMin compressed my sample file (map.js, around 60K) to 70%, Shrinksafe made it to around 60%. I think I will try to compress the relevant files with both and want to see if there is a difference. If not, then Shrinksafe is definitely a good choice.

I have also found a nice online interface at

http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/shrinksafe/

The next step would be to find an easy way of compressing all the relevant files in one go, preferably via Eclipse's "Export", as Uli suggested. How do we proceed? I have created a ticket at

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapbender/ticket/54

Christoph

Marc Jansen schrieb:
Hi list,

I would love to see compression brought to the Javascript files and have another suggestion as for the compression tool:

http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe (a nice article which shows how to use the compression tool)

The Java-file custom_rhino.jar is used to pack Javascript. This is used within the dojotoolkit (www.dojotoolkit.org) for example. One can download the file here: http://svn.dojotoolkit.org/dojo/trunk/buildscripts/lib/custom_rhino.jar

-- Marc



Christoph Baudson (WhereGroup) schrieb:
To enable Mapbender to load faster, the new release will employ JavaScript compression.

There has been a lot of discussion about this in the past; I think packing the JS files with JSMin is the best idea:

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html

+ the existing JS code must not stick to a given syntax
+ transparent (removes only linefeeds, whitespaces and comments)
+ no obfuscation
0 compared to real packers with still a good compression rate.

Files that are already compressed with other packers (like jQuery) will of course not be re-compressed.

Some more questions arise:

1) Where to store the compressed/uncompressed files in the file system. The default setting should be "compressed" IMHO. It should be easy to switch back and forth from uncompressed to compressed.

2) Which settings? Take a look at

http://fmarcia.info/jsmin/test.html

You can add comments. The compressed JS files will not have a license on top of the script, as comments are removed. Do we have to add a license?

For compression settings, I chose "conservative" for my test run; Some scripts like jsTree.js don't use the ; to end statements, so a linefeed mustn't be removed.

Any ideas?

Christoph
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