7 Responses to “A JavaScript Compressor/Obfuscator”

1. nullbert says:

   February 8, 2007 at 6:33 pm

   Is that better than http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/compressor_system.html ?
2. boofer says:

   February 8, 2007 at 9:25 pm

   Yes. Dojo tries to talk people out of obfuscating. I assume to cut off the onslot of “How do I debug my Javascript?” questions.
3. nebulous says:

   March 9, 2007 at 3:04 pm

   I think compressing JS is retarded. Any web client post 1995 can accept gzipped content and any webserver can automatically gzip content to browsers that accept it. The only other reason people state for this is to keep others from using their code, which is doubly dumb. If somone could make a free copy of my house or car and use it somewhere else I wouldn’t be pissed off. Those things are a helluva lot more valuable to me than some JavaScript.

   Oh and on DoJo.. Bleh. Extra fake tags in HTML sucks. Use jQuery.
4. boofer says:

   March 9, 2007 at 7:12 pm

   It’s not a fact of obfuscating the Javascript so no one can steal it. It’s more of so when I put it in production, no one else here can go in and tweak it. I’ll send the source to anyone since anything on the web is technically free. I’m just trying to prevent people I work with from eventually and/or potentially fuckin’ up all my shit.
5. nebulous says:

   March 12, 2007 at 10:41 pm

   additional comment about dojo: I guess its fine if you use genuine XHTML, but who tf does that?
6. nullbert says:

   June 4, 2007 at 4:37 pm

   I haven’t looked into all the AJAX libs available. Dojo worked fine. I don’t use the widget library, so no non XHTML tags. Do you use jQuery a lot? If so, I might look at that and see if it has any advantages for my projects. Boofer, I realize you probably work with idiots like the rest of us, but I seriously doubt you can get away with trying to hide your code from your co-workers/company.
7. nebulous says:

   June 4, 2007 at 7:55 pm

   Yeah I use jQuery constantly. Its very simple, clean, chainable, and you only have to include parts that you are actually using.

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