Author: elPas0
Fond of MooTools ? Not so long ago mootools team published Mootools 1.2. It contains a lot of new features and some changes in API. To make your life a bit easier, i recommend you to use mootools cheat sheet

It includes documentation for Core, Native, Class, Element, Utilities and Request.
Thanks for sharing, Maik Vlcek
Author: elPas0
If you developing rich web applications, you start to think how to compress JavaScript to keep bandwidth and page load times as small as possible. I found 5 different tools to compress javascript files, which can be run using cron, or run on some event to automate work on production-server.
1. JSMin. Commonly used compressor, based on simple rules, ported on many languages, including JavaScript
2. JavaScript::Minifier. Separate perl module, compression ratio equal to JSMin
3.Dojo ShrinkSafe aka Rhino. JavaScript compressor that parses the JavaScript using the rhino library, included in Dojo. Run as jar-module.
4. Dean Edwards Packer. Well-known tools from far-famed Dean Edwards. Ported on some languages, including PHP4/5.
5. YUI. JavaScript minifier designed to be 100% safe and yield a high compression ratio. Run as jar-module.
From my own experience i can tell
- no sense to compress files less 1 kb
- packer shows best results ( just my own opinion )
- always check you functionality of your compressed files. You can try to verify your code with JSLint
- remember that you can gzip compressed files to get smaller file
Good article about gzipping js
Author: elPas0
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