To cut a long story short, I have been wanting to minify TiddlyWiki plugin code. Minifying javascript throws away comments in plugins.
In the TiddlyWiki environment plugin as it stands comments can carry essential information such as which other plugins should be loaded first, and things such as default stylesheets that the plugin makes use of. I wrote about this here: http://jon.tiddlyspace.com/bags/jon_public/tiddlers/plugin%20meta%20markup%20for%20tiddlywiki.html It has raised a few questions including this big one: 1) Should we be using this mechanism but also more short term 2) If we are should we be not be making use of important comments e.g. /*! to signal to javascript minifiers not to minify these comments 3) If we are using important comments should the wikify treat /*!** the same as /*** Would be interested in people's thoughts -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
