[ale] source code

[wolf at wolfhalton.info]

At the heart, isn't the valuable part of a web site the content.
9999.7 people out of 10000 people will not look at the source anyway,
and 
it seems to me that the most impact of obfuscated code 
is brought upon the person who needs to maintain it.
Especially if the original maintainer has moved on.
This is my argument against customers buying flash sites, 
since you will have to keep the same developer if you don't want 
to rebuild your site from scratch every few years.
Some developers seem to think this vendor lock-in is a good
thing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Potter <michael at potter.name>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] source code
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:46:49 -0500


I will also discourage you from obfuscating the .html/.js code.

Here is a little story about why:
I am dealing with an app right now that hides the source.  This app is
for internal use and only supports IE6/7.  If I could look at the
source I would be sending the authors fixes to make it work under
firefox and other browsers and making those changes myself using
grease-monkey.

Because I can not do that, I spent my time writing a whole new app.
Sometime in the future I will have the 20% of that app that does 80%
of the work.

I am sure that I could have spent some time to crack the way they are
hiding the source, but I think writing my own app was a better use of
my time.



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