Minification of the magento original javascript files

[bhennesAdv]

Description (*)

More and more trending subject in the web domain are about optimization of the data consumed by the users when browsing websites.
Javascript files in OpenMage (ROOT/js/* or the default skin ROOT/skin/frontend///js/) could be minified by default (Source must still be present in the repository for evolution/correction purpose).

Expected behavior (*)

The default js files loaded in the OpenMage pages should all be minified.

Benefits

Several kb for each user using an OpenMage website and no need for OpenMage developpers to add a minifying process in the website.

Additional information

As I said in the title, this is micro-optimization. The aim is not to add any dependency with a JavaScript minifiying process but to provide the default files properly minified (With licenses comment properly kept).

What do you think about it ?
Regards,

[fballiano]

I prefer using a separate module for minimization or manage it separately (eg: by the CDN) while I would prefer to have the source code unminified

[loekvangool]

Agree with @fballiano. At least on Cloudflare CDN, this feature is available even on the free plan.