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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by theK on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:06PM (#29298271)
Yeah this was awesome time and it did teach you more than just the trick, navigating unknown codebases, extracting the meaningful parts of a non trivial piece in f code…

I really think the web community lost something with the transition to compiled uglified js and css…. Sure google will show you to some code if you manage to put what you are looking for into words but that isn’t always easy. Pitty that there is no standardised solution to publish the source along with the Minimized script nowadays.

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by 3np on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:02PM (#29302577)
There is. Source Maps.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/So...

Can’t tell if you’re sarcastic or not, assuming not all comment readers will be aware either way.

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by theK on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:41PM (#29398377)
Just for the record, source maps are awesome and (unfortunately) typically disabled on production. The original remark was criticism towards this practice.
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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by hajile on Monday November 22, 2021 @10:32AM (#29307414)
Very few sites ship source maps to production.
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