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http://www.georgeandjonathan.com/ The music here is pretty neat but I'm primarily linking this for the sake of the site itself because holy cherries
Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:27:38 UTC from web-
@redenchilada Amazing
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@nerthos Probably the best thing I've seen on the internet. I wanna crack open the source and learn things from it
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@redenchilada You could always send an email to the dudes who made it to see if they're willing to share something
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@nerthos All the stuff I'm interested in is sent straight to the browser anyway. (Unless they minify the JS. Urg. Minification is the bane of my existence.)
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@redenchilada I don't know what minification is but it reminds me of Austin Powers. In any case, cracking open stuff is always fun.
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@nerthos It's a means of rudimentary Javascript and CSS compression that removes all of the whitespace and comments that don't matter to the interpreter, and in JS's case renames all the non-global variables to the shortest possible unique names. It's great for publishing things because it means filesizes are smaller for web transmit, but it's awful for cracking things open and figuring out how they tick because the minified code is unreadable.
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@nerthos The best way to illustrate would be to show you our site's main Javascript file and the minified version. The latter is half the filesize, but you ain't figuring out how it works any time soon. The former is much easier to edit.
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@redenchilada The second one looks horrid
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@nerthos To edit? Absolutely, and I need to stop being lazy and get the compressor the SN devs used so I can stop manually porting changes to the minified file. It's good for page loading, though.
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@redenchilada I meant to look at. I wouln't know where to begin if I wanted to edit it. With the other one, I'd probably manage, to a degree.
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@redenchilada Isn't it actually Cloudflare that's minifying it?
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@ceruleanspark StatusNet has minified JS files everywhere and the site uses them by default. Cloudflare might be doing some additional minifying.
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