Ori Livneh wrote: >On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> >wrote: >> I am somewhat concerned about the implications for JS debugging here. >> Debugging JS problems with the live sites is already pretty complicated: >> 1. debug=true won't reproduce some bugs (usually race condition related) > >Yeah, debug mode sucks. I think we need to think it over.
Currently it goes something like this, as I understand it: by default, all CSS and JavaScript is concatenated and minified as much as practically possible. If you pass a "debug=true" URL parameter to index.php, you can disable this concatenation and minification of CSS and JavaScript (which largely, if not exclusively, come through via load.php/ResourceLoader). I believe there's been extensive discussion on this mailing list about the trade-offs being made here. Perhaps it's time for another discussion. * Minification reduces bandwidth usage. ** At the cost of making debugging more difficult. * You can specify debug=true. ** Specifying the URL parameter can damage reproducibility. ** URL parameter is non-obvious to just about everyone. *** Could add an HTML comment at least pointing people in this direction. * Minification is a form of obfuscation and it harms the open Web. I'm not sure what the right answer is here. The damage to reproducibility and the open Web hurts a lot. The performance hit may hurt more. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
