new the-yui-compressor for js

[jheid]

With 2.0 this is also possible.

What do you mean? Ext 2.0? JS Builder 2.0 or YUI compressor 2.0 (this is what I'm saying...)?

[jack.slocum]

The 1.1.1 build was built with the yui-compressor. It resulted in about 12k drop in file size. I also used it for the CSS.

[jon.whitcraft]

I'm currently looking into making the yui-compressor the engine for the Java Builder tool. More will come after i get some time to work on it more after this weekend.

[trbs]

I'm currently looking into making the yui-compressor the engine for the Java Builder tool. More will come after i get some time to work on it more after this weekend.

I will also build the yui-compressor into the Python Builder tool as soon as possible!

(p.s. the most recent version of python tool 0.7.1 is already 800% faster then 0.7.0, if you have the python just-in-time compiler named psyco installed )

[Condor]

The YUI Compressor is under heavy developement.
At time of writing the latest version is 2.1.1 and can be obtained from a new url:
http://www.julienlecomte.net/yuicompressor/

[mystix]

yay. add me to the club.

we just switched from ShrinkSafe + Dean Edward's packer to yuicompressor today after i saw trbs's post in the translations thread

minifying has never been faster.

[trbs]

Please be aware that for you'll explicitly need to enable --charset utf-8 with yui-compressor to build a completely working extjs.

This is a bug that i've also reported in the Bug Forums for the Ext 1.1.1 build.

Explanation
The locale files use UTF-8 encoding to support many non-ascii languages. The yui-compressor does not automaticly detect the correct character encoding for these files and tries to decode them with a ascii charset. This results in all non-ascii characters being mangled into ascii character 63 - the question mark.

[mystix]

ah just replied to trbs in the bugs thread...

[copied and pasted from bugs]
got this from the YUI Compressor download page:

--charset character-set
If a supported character set is specified, the YUI Compressor will use it
to read the input file. Otherwise, it will assume that the platform's
default character set is being used. The output file is encoded using
the same character set.

HTH

[trbs]

For completeness sake; my Debian Linux appearenly defaults to ASCII as does Jack's Windows Vista machine appearently, since the official build sports the same problem.

[steffenk]

i checked out this one:
http://joliclic.free.fr/php/javascript-packer/en/

it dropped 126kB with ext-all.js - that's incredible!