Talk:Minification (programming)

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External link cleanup

So.. how many external links do we need, exactly? They outweigh the content of the article like 2-to-1. Markusbradley (talk) 02:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. This was valid earlier when there were links to dime-a-dozen free online JavaScript minifiers. I've rewritten the article to include only the most important and unique tools and programming libraries. I'll have to rewrite the "web dev" section too, replacing the external link list with a para explaining what they do and why they're useful. On a side note, Wikipedia is missing an article on Content encoding. -- Tom Jenkins ^(reply) 12:24, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how would external links do any harm as they're not SEO. From my point of view, I worked hard building a CSS minifation tool and writing a very good article on how to dinamically do it with PHP. They were removed for the reason stated above. As long as the information linked is valid, it should stay there, there's no need in removing it. -- Claudiu

Anti minification - code formatting beautifier

I think that the section about "JavaScript formatting beautifier" should be added. Because it is another process, which is the process opposite to Minification, IMHO. See e.g. http://jsbeautifier.org/ -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 10:07, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Minified source code is also very useful for HTML code

Minified source code is also very useful for HTML code. As an example, successive whitespace characters in HTML are rendered as a single space, so replacing all whitespace sequences with single spaces can considerably reduce the size of a page.

This is factually incorrect: CSS can be defined in such a way that whitespace is not collapsed and since CSS is unknown from the point of view of the HTML no assumption can be made about whitespace. -- Fursday 21:04, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Example

It isn't clear that the for loop example in javascript is slower when a is pre declared in any reasonable number of use cases. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.73.227.12 (talk) 21:49, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The example seems to go beyond as what has been defined as minification above: "...process of removing all unnecessary characters... These unnecessary characters usually include white space characters, new line characters, comments, and sometimes block delimiters," Andreasabel (talk) 11:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction

".. though the term obfuscation may be distinguished as a form of false cryptography while a minified code instance may be reversed using a pretty-printer."

How does this contradict the first part of the sentence? --129.13.72.197 (talk) 07:05, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Missing Criticism section

There is no criticism of such a practice, because code minification can lead to bugs related to syntax errors, resulting in application hangs and crashes. -Mardus /talk 17:18, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]