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10K Apart Contest: Cheating by Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images. Fascinating hack: transform your JS and CSS in to coloured pixels, save the result as a PNG to benefit from PNG’s built in compression algorithms, then read the data back out of the PNG and convert it back to text using JavaScript and canvas—all to reduce the on-disk filesize when entering the 10K app competition. Alex’s GithubFinder entry is worth checking out too.

Posted 23rd August 2010 at 9:45 am

Tagged 10kapart, alexle, compression, github, hacks, javascript, png

5 comments

I thank you humbly for shainrg your wisdom JJWY

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john dillon - 24th October 2011 21:40 - #
Stellar work there everyone. I'll keep on raeding.

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