JS Compressors
So Jason found that one of the compressed versions of prototype we were using was causing some function to not work. The prototype file in question had been shrinked using ShrinkSafe, which is based on Rhino, and is actually made by dojo (I figured since IBM has a dark-alliance with dojo, it'd work fairly well with Websphere. Needless to say, ShrinkSafe is well... crap. So here is what you should use instead.
- jsmin*
- /packer/
- YUICompressor*
*Now I didn't link to the jsmin or to YUI because they could be updated, and they are files you run locally on your box while /packer/ is a copy-paste web-util.
In my opinion YUI is the best, you can choose several different compression levels and it works very well compressing prototype, so well in fact that we got it to shrink down an extra 10k than what had been done with ShrinkSafe. Also the YUICompressor is semi-intelligent with whitespace, it checks for ascii characters before and after a piece of whitespace to know if it should remove it.
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