We are using jQuery in our project. We have numerous custom javascript files in our web-app that have UDFs utilizing the jQuery features. We need to reduce the size (as a part of performance improvement activities) and I am looking for a reliable 'minifier' for these files (it would be great if the same tool could minify the CSS files too)
We tried JSLint and JSMin - but JSLint does not complete and throws many exceptions as soon as it encounters jQuery code.
Answer
The YUI Compressor is a tool I use, it compresses both JS and CSS well, and it is written in Java (so you can work it into a build process via ant).
Someone's even made an online version of it.