Monthly Archives: August 2007

This new version of the compressor fixes a few bugs and optimizes string concatenations. You can now keep your code nicely formatted by concatenating string literals, but not suffer any performance hit. For example, the following code: var url = … Continue reading →

I am very pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the YUI Compressor. In addition to fixing several bugs and implementing a few enhancements suggested by the community, I also integrated Isaac Schlueter‘s regular expression based CSS minifier. … Continue reading →

Today, I found out that the good folks behind jQuery were using Packer, another great JavaScript compression utility by Dean Edwards, to distribute their compressed version of the library. The result: an amazingly small 21KB download! My first thought was: … Continue reading →

The release of the YUI Compressor last week has generated a lot of buzz and excitement throughout the web development community. Actually, after receiving so much great feedback, I felt compelled to issue a minor update as soon as possible … Continue reading →

Is there a need for a new JavaScript minifier? According to Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance Team, 40% to 60% of Yahoo!’s users have an empty cache experience and about 20% of all page views are done with an empty cache (see … Continue reading →

I wrote a prototype YUI-based image magnifier widget that makes use of VML on Internet Explorer and the Canvas tag on all the other A-grade browsers. Attached is a screenshot. To instantiate the widget, include the following source files in … Continue reading →