[TYPO3-dev] Javascript Minify-Manager

[Sebastian Gebhard]

After Dmitry pointed out that minification while runtime is not good 
solution, I ask myself:

Why are

typo3/contrib/prototype.js
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/builder.js
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/controls.js
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/dragdrop.js
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/effects.js
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/scriptaculous.js
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/slider.js
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/sound.js
and
typo3/contrib/scriptaculous/unittest.js

all not minified?

I still think a JS manager would be a good thing for merging all 
Javascripts into a single file or in some few files. When I open 4.2.6 
Backend on start screen 20 JS files are included. Maybe it could be 2.

The same goes for CSS files. 23 are loaded on backend start screen.

And even more insane: What about a new way of handling Icons? Very often 
used icons (BE modules, icons of list view) could maybe merged to few 
icons palette graphics and the css background properties could go into 
one of the merged css files.

I'm just brainstorming about what we can do to lower the number of file 
requests especially in the backend. Dminitry finally enabled some long 
existing .htaccess files with a patch yesterday. That's a good step. 
Maybe we find some more good solutions.