So what this does is not reveal the javascript code? Little confused...can you explain a little more?

This might be a little out there, but if you are making codes for people to use, why would you want to make them hard to edit?

This goes back to the days when webmasters used to jealously protect their codes. Many people don't want their codes to be edited, they don't want it to be possible to remove the copyright and stuff. But anyway, the compression thing is better because it saves bandwidth on the user side.

A combination of both would give you the benefit of both.

WAY back to the days  webmasters were not ALL that jealously protective in all honesty.   Lots has changed.

There is also a huge trend now towards either GPL (General Public License) or copywrong.     There is so much that is no longer free on the Internet and for me and many others the work we create is free for others to use,  free for them to manipulate, change, and distribute so long as they allow others to do the same with it, and do not make profit from it.   

Its called sharing.. a concept that seems to have gotten lost over time.

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