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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,735 PointsWhy does the minified version of slick.js have some fancy drawings at the top of it?
I thought the point of a minified version was to take all that out.
2 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,148 PointsThat amount is so minuscule you're probably talking hundreds of second slower load time, if that. The whole file is only 39kb.
You'll see these little ansi art drawings at the top of files like this. If you want, as the developer, you can delete all of that at the top to truly get it as small as possible. As Sam said, many minifiers give you the ability to add a header like that to the minified version, likely that's what he's done.
Samuel Durkin
48,402 PointsIt depends on what minifier is used, but it looks like the script itself is entirely minified and the author chose to add the comment in after processing.