Comments on: Comparison of JavaScript compression methods

By: Eric Martin

Eric Martin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:13:55 +0000

@Peter - I prefaced my response with “gzip, as mentioned here, refers to…”. I’ll change last sentence to be more clear, but again, I was speaking in terms of server compression not physical file compression.

By: Peter Harkins

Peter Harkins — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:36:03 +0000

Eric: gzip is the standard compression used on unix machines, it is indeed something a user can do to a file. WinZip and other Windows archiving platforms support compression and decompression. Also see another take on the question.

By: Santiago

Santiago — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:31:43 +0000

OK. thanks!

By: Eric Martin

Eric Martin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:44:07 +0000

@Santiago - gzip, as mentioned here, refers to the HTTP response compression by a web server and decompression by the web browser. So it’s not something you can physically do to a file. (UPDATE: Yes, you can physically compress a file using gzip, but this post is referring to server compression - thanks Peter)

Here is a great article that explains it all:
http://www.webreference.com/internet/software/servers/http/compression/

By: Santiago

Santiago — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:20:57 +0000

Hi, how can i “GZIP” .js files using windows?
Is there any GUI mode?

Or like the Packer URL version? (http://dean.edwards.name/packer/)

Cheers!
Santiago.