that just means the minification is broken on their platform no? So we 
have to debug the minification on their platform not the debug output  
... but sure as you mention a hundreds of single character whitespace 
lines will compress nicely.

--michael

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Michael Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> The debug switch would modify the HTML output to point at the individual
>> files with a GET seed ie myscript.js?<?php= date()?> or something of
>> that nature bypassing the script loader altogether. The bulk of extra
>> content is comments, code documentation and debug statements .. line
>> preservation does not seem worth it. Debug output should be enabled via
>> a GET debug argument, user preference or $wgConfigure variable.
>>     
>
> So you end up with a user who says the problem goes away when they
> enable debug. Yet they can't provide useful debugging info with the
> failing version because it's all garbled minification output.
>
> May I suggest an alternative perspective with respect to line
> numbering:  Destroying line numbers doesn't reduce the post-gzipped
> size by much, it does not seem worth it.
>
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