Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap. [LWN.net]

Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap.

Posted Mar 23, 2009 11:25 UTC (Mon) by OLPC (guest, #47981)
In reply to: Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap. by niner
Parent article: Stallman: the JavaScript trap

Minified code does not just save bandwidth. It also saves memory in the client, speeds up parsing and probably also execution speed on many interpreters.

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Javscript is an implementation detail: this is the same old Google trap.

Posted Mar 23, 2009 16:06 UTC (Mon) by Wummel (guest, #7591) [Link]

You can have the best of both worlds. I deploy both minified and fully readable scripts on the server, eg. /js/xyz_min.js and /js/xyz.js.

When the application is in debug mode, the non-modified original files are loaded and can be debugged easily. In normal mode the minimized scripts are loaded.
Debug mode is automatically activated when the URL has an additional parameter ?debug=1.