2010/5/18 Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]>: > The problem here is Wikimedia sites. If you leave the debug mode off > and serve fully minified scripts on WMF sites, the hundreds if not > thousands of people who develop user/site scripts for them will have a > very hard time debugging anything that involves interactions with the > minified code. If you turn debug mode on permanently, you lose most of > the benefit of having a minifier to begin with (Wikimedia being the > single biggest user of MediaWiki). > I have recently configured test.wikipedia.org to pull all of its JS/CSS locally rather than from bits.wikimedia.org (for better isolation) and serve all UsabilityInitiative JS/CSS in raw, multi-file format (rather than combined and minified, which we use on 'real' wikis); all of this is to aid testing. The script loader could also be configured to serve its JS minified on normal wikis and unminified on testwiki.
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