Last year I compared some CSS minifiers, namely YUICompressor, CSSTidy (with “small” vs. “safe” settings), PHP PEAR’s CSS lib and Minify (detailed results). Now that I’ve done some work on the YUICompressor and since there’s a new kid on the block from Microsoft I thought I should give it another go. I only compared CSSTidy […]

The previous parts are here (building and testing) and here (what gets minified). Now let’s see how YUI CSS min handles CSS hacks. As you know CSS hacks often use errors in CSS parsers in browsers to target specific browser versions and supply additional rules to work around other issues in said browsers. That makes […]

The first part is here. It was more about building the YUICompressor, writing and running test cases. Now let’s see what the compressor does exactly to your CSS. BTW, you can play with the web UI to see for yourself how the minifier works. Stripping comments and white space This is the bare minimum a […]

Honored to be a part of the YUI project, I am now helping with the maintenance of the CSSMin part of the YUICompressor. My changes are now part of the trunk on github, so I’m official. Next on the agenda is documenting the thing, so that’s what I’ll try to do here, maybe in a […]