google's use of class names

Question

i noticed a very strange way of naming classes in G+ and gmail..

example: a-b-h-Jb a-b-Rf-dB a-Rf-dB d-s-r (see G+\'s code for yourself!)

who th

Answer 1

At a guess, they probably have everything written out nicely in full at some point, and then put it through some program to compress it (reduce the length of variables). This reduces readability but also reduces file size, improving load times in theory.