Ultracompressing JavaScript and CSS

Posted by: Mike Girouard on 09/07/2010

Just read about an incredible way to compress JavaScript and CSS using PNGs on Sitepoint today.

This hit everyone’s radar from the recent 10K Apart contest where a few contestants used this to cleverly circumvent the size budget.

You can read a quick and dirty summary of the technique on the Sitepoint blog, but if you’re interested in the details of the technique and implementation see Jacob Seidelin’s blog as well as the PNGStore library.

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Mike Girouard is a web enthusiast based in NYC. He is a active presenter at conferences and user groups, and leads the development of several open source side projects. When he has time, he enjoys getting outside and doing non-nerdy things. Mike can be found on Twitter at @mgirouard and even keeps an infrequently updated blog at lovemikeg.com.

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