How to use the YUI compressor

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Compressing your javascript and CSS is a easy way to save bandwidth and make a site’s download and performance feel a bit snappier. There’s lots of tools to allow you to do this, but from my research it seems that Yahoo!‘s YUI compressor is the overall best.  Sure there’s others out there like JSmin and Dean Edward’s packer, but YUI offers a higher compression ratio, it also works with CSS files, and it’ won’t obfuscate your code.

Compressors work by removing all comments and whitespace (line breaks), and in some cases they will actually analyze your code and shrink variable names.  Using compression can result in up to a 60% decrease in file size!  So lets get started in learning how to use the YUI compressor!

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Posted by Chris Barr on 12/13 at 11:52 PM
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Textarea resizer for Mootools 1.2

Saturday, December 06, 2008

A long time ago I wrote a small plugin for Mootools to resize textareas on the fly, which I simply called Textarea resizer.  It was only compatible with Mootools 1.11, and since then Mootools 1.2 has been released and I’ve switched to jQuery for all the stuff I do.

Someone over at ljpilon.nl emailed me to let me know they re-wrote my plugin for Mootools 1.2 compatibility!  You can find it over at their site at: http://ljpilon.nl/mootools/2008/12/03/textarea-resizer-for-mootools-12/

Posted by Chris Barr on 12/06 at 03:32 PM
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