Minify – On Demand CSS/JS Compression

Posted by Sheldon Finlay on January 22, 2009

It’s always a good idea to compress JavaScript and CSS files in order to have them load faster.  However, it’s a compressed file is nearly impossible to edit if you need to make changes down the road. Enter Minify. Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine multiple CSS or Javascript files, compress their contents (i.e. removal of unnecessary whitespace/comments), and serve the results with HTTP encoding (gzip/deflate) and headers that allow optimal client-side caching. It’s a pretty sweet deal.