On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:12:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello,
I've been looking through the logs and it looks like the top
files in bytes transferred yesterday (even with the deluge of
downloads) were a number of Javascript, HTML, and CSS files.
There are programs to reduce the size of such files called
"minifiers". Should we use some? If so, what would the experts
recommend? We'd need ideally some command line utility that we
can deploy easily and integrate with the build process.
Alternatively, an online service could fit the bill, too.
I may be in the minority in this, but I would prefer if some of
that were just removed entirely.
In particular, the code-running doohickey that doesn't even work
needs to die for the pathological behaviour it gives on Firefox.
For example http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html hung my
browser for almost twenty seconds with a blank coloured
background. This is on an i5 at work and my i7 at home, with or
without extensions. I can't even imagine how my old laptop would
cope. To add insult to injury, it displayed the page without the
JS for almost a second before disappearing.
I'm fine with some light JS that makes the documentation more
usable or useful; this makes it practically unusable unless I
have access to NoScript.
