April 2, 2007
3:50 pm
Packer version 3.0 Released
Dean Edwards has released Packer version 3.0, that allows and is one of the top utilities to squeeze your JavaScript.
- respects Microsoft conditional comments
- new option to shrink variable and argument identifiers
- removed the special chars feature (except the
;;;feature which people seem to like) - some bug fixes:
- packer no longer closes spaces between the
+/-operators so code like this is safe:c = a++ +b; - the
throw"error"}bug that affected Safari (this is a Safari bug really but packer gets around it) - the
__proto__bug for Mozilla browsers (this only affected the online version of packer) - a minor parsing bug affecting the detection of regular expressions
- packer no longer closes spaces between the
- simplified the user interface
Dean also had some fun sniffing browsers and came up with the short test.
Source:→ Dean Edwards
Packer, Javascript
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