Simon Willison’s Weblog

Of SVG, Minification and Gzip. Delightfully nerdy exploration of tricks you can use to hand-optimize your SVG in order to maximize gzip compression. Premature optimization may be the root of all evil but this is still a great way to learn about how gzip actually works.

# 21st November 2017, 2:54 pm / gzip, minification, svg

Closure Compiler Service (via) A hosted version of the Google Closure Compiler (JavaScript minifier) running on App Engine. It has both a user interface and a REST API, which means you can use it as part of an automated build process without needing to set up a local copy of the software.

# 9th August 2010, 1:17 pm / apis, closure, google, javascript, minification, rest, recovered

jQuery 1.3.1 Released. Bug fix for 1.3, mainly browser compatibility issues. Of interest: jQuery no longer ship a packed version (where JS is used to further decompress a string), as their tests show that this reduces performance due to the overhead of the extra decompression. They still provide a YUI Compressor minified version.

# 22nd January 2009, 10:41 am / javascript, jquery, minification, performance

jsjuicer. Another conditional comment respecting minifier tool, this time in C++. Ships with a command line utility, unlike JavaScript::Minifier.

# 4th June 2007, 5:57 pm / adrian-johnston, c-plus-plus, javascript, jsjuicer, jsmin, minification