Packer vs JsMin

[lrbabe]

It seems that recently, packed versions of activejs have been
introduced in the "latest" folder.
However, packer tends to be abandoned in favor of JsMin + Gzip by tha
major JavaScript library out there because of the bad impact that it
has on page load (see http://docs.jquery.com/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_I_compress_my_code.3F)

packer wraps the whole script in an eval() which is known to be a
resource expensive operation.

[Ryan Johnson]

I was unaware, I'll reconfigure the builds next week. The packer
process drove me nuts. Hopefully there is a decent JSMin
implementation for ruby (which creates the builds).

[Arnout Kazemier]

Actually, there a YUI compressor for Ruby, : http://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-yui-compressor/tree/master

Arnout Kazemier

Adobe Spry Community Expert | Speaker Adobe MAX 2009

[lrbabe]

Yes, actually YUI compressor is even a better option.

On Jul 31, 4:45 pm, Arnout Kazemier <i...@3rd-eden.com> wrote:
> Actually, there a YUI compressor for Ruby, :http://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-yui-compressor/tree/master
>
> Arnout Kazemier
>
> Adobe Spry Community Expert | Speaker Adobe MAX 2009
>
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>
>
>
> > I was unaware, I'll reconfigure the builds next week. The packer
> > process drove me nuts. Hopefully there is a decent JSMin
> > implementation for ruby (which creates the builds).
>
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:52 AM, lrbabe<lrb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> It seems that recently, packed versions of activejs have been
> >> introduced in the "latest" folder.
> >> However, packer tends to be abandoned in favor of JsMin + Gzip by tha
> >> major JavaScript library out there because of the bad impact that it

> >> has on page load (seehttp://docs.jquery.com/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_I_compress_m...)