Compressing Javascript

[email protected] ("Simpson, Jr, Joe B.") Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:25:32 -0500
Newsgroups perl.recdescent
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrew,

I was searching for Javascript compression tools in order to reduce our
users' download time, and found none - but did find this query you posted.
Were you ever able to create this compressor, or find a correct grammar for
Javascript?

Thanks...

  Joe Simpson
  Research Triangle Institute
   [email protected]


>To: <[email protected]> 
>Subject: Javascript grammar? 
>From: "Andrew G. Hammond" <[email protected]> 
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:15:42 -0400 
>Delivered-to: mailing list [email protected] 
>
>I'm looking for a grammar to parse javascript.  Anybody know where I could
>get one?
>
>The goal is to create a javascript compressor which maintains semantic
>equivilance while minimizing size of a javascript file (remove whitespace &
>comments without mangling strings, rename identifiers using variable length
>huffman codes).