TinyMCE Perl Compressor

Category:	CGI / Web
Author/Contact Info	Clinton Gormley clint@traveljury.com
Description:	TinyMCE is an open source cross browser rich text editor from Moxiecode. The TinyMCE Perl compressor gzips all javascript files in TinyMCE to a single streamable file. This makes the overall download size 75% smaller and the number of requests will also be reduced. The overall initialisation time for TinyMCE will be reduced dramatically if you use this script. The TinyMCE Perl compressor project page is at http://hacks.traveljury.com/perl_compressor/
The current release can always be downloaded from http://hacks.traveljury.com/perl_compressor/current.tar.gz

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Re: TinyMCE Perl Compressor - new version released by clinton (Priest) on Mar 30, 2008 at 20:22 UTC
For anybody using TinyMCE, I've just released a new version of the Perl compressor for TinyMCE, which works with version 3.0.5 of TinyMCE. It's available here : http://hacks.traveljury.com/perl_compressor/ Clint	[reply]
Re: TinyMCE Perl Compressor by diotalevi (Canon) on May 02, 2007 at 15:33 UTC
Don't most web servers send compressed data anyway? Whenever I request a .js file, its often served as a gzip. That's just automatic. ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply]
Re^2: TinyMCE Perl Compressor by clinton (Priest) on May 03, 2007 at 16:57 UTC
Yes, most can do, but a lot of people don't (or don't know how to) set it up. The gzip'ing is just part of the benefit. The other part is that you reduce maybe 6+ separate requests into one, and that it adds an Expires: header which essentially means that people will never need to download the javascript more than once per session. I can't take any credit for the idea - I just took what existed in PHP and rewrote it for use on a Perl platform.	[reply]
Re^3: TinyMCE Perl Compressor by jZed (Prior) on May 03, 2007 at 17:06 UTC
start blasphemy Can you point me to the PHP you based it on, I've got a Drupal install that could use it. /end blasphemy	[reply]
Re^4: TinyMCE Perl Compressor by clinton (Priest) on May 03, 2007 at 17:40 UTC
Re^3: TinyMCE Perl Compressor by diotalevi (Canon) on May 03, 2007 at 19:41 UTC
Ah, I didn't also realize it combines multiple files together. I do that at work with a CPP-like program that understands declarations like ///#include "foo.js". ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply]
Re^2: TinyMCE Perl Compressor by clinton (Priest) on Jun 05, 2007 at 10:05 UTC
Don't most web servers send compressed data anyway? You'd think so, but even our own Perl Monks doesn't gzip its responses: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl? GET /index.pl? HTTP/1.1 Host: www.perlmonks.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.8.1. +4) Gecko/20070529 SUSE/2.0.0.4-6.1 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9 +,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,/;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.7,es;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: UTF-8,* Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: userpass=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:02:51 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.37 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 [download]	[reply] [d/l]