jquery-min version?

Question

I noticed that there is always a \"min\" version (stands for mini?) for most JavaScript libraries (e.g., jQuery).

What is the difference? Less functionality but smal

Answer 1

Its been "minified". All the functionaility is there, just in a minified version that is smaller for saving transfer bandwidth.

Things to become "minified":

• Remvoing whitespace
• Renaming some variables - such as function-scoped variables, not function names.

Here is an example

function myFunction(someReallyLongParamName)
{
    someReallyCrazyName = someReallyLongParamName;
}

could be come

function myFunction(a){b=a;}