minifying the website

[Wyatt]

On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:12:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I've been looking through the logs and it looks like the top 
> files in bytes transferred yesterday (even with the deluge of 
> downloads) were a number of Javascript, HTML, and CSS files.
>
> There are programs to reduce the size of such files called 
> "minifiers". Should we use some? If so, what would the experts 
> recommend? We'd need ideally some command line utility that we 
> can deploy easily and integrate with the build process. 
> Alternatively, an online service could fit the bill, too.
>
I may be in the minority in this, but I would prefer if some of 
that were just removed entirely.

In particular, the code-running doohickey that doesn't even work 
needs to die for the pathological behaviour it gives on Firefox.  
For example http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html hung my 
browser for almost twenty seconds with a blank coloured 
background.  This is on an i5 at work and my i7 at home, with or 
without extensions.  I can't even imagine how my old laptop would 
cope.  To add insult to injury, it displayed the page without the 
JS for almost a second before disappearing.

I'm fine with some light JS that makes the documentation more 
usable or useful; this makes it practically unusable unless I 
have access to NoScript.