htmlcompressor mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• htmlcompressor

Projektgeschichte

The preserved ChangeLog begins with an initial 0.1 release on March 7, 2009, followed quickly by XML compression, JSP and Velocity integration, command-line support, and JavaScript/CSS compression hooks. Version 1.4 in 2011 completed a Maven migration and made the project available as a Maven artifact.

Google Code archival pages preserve the old project, while the hazendaz GitHub repository describes itself as an automatic export from code.google.com/p/htmlcompressor. The GitHub README also records the later split between 1.x for javax namespace support and 2.x for jakarta namespace support.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The original Maven coordinates under com.googlecode.htmlcompressor reached Maven Central in 2011, and later com.github.hazendaz coordinates carried the project forward. Homebrew packages the command-line form, which keeps the tool available to shell users even though the codebase is primarily a Java library.

Wie es verwendet wird

The compressor is used to shrink HTML or XML by removing comments, repeated spaces, optional quotes, protocol prefixes, and inline CSS or JavaScript overhead depending on options. It also includes command-line, JSP taglib, Velocity directive, and Java API workflows.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

HTML Compressor is a time capsule from the Google Code and early Maven era of web performance tooling. Package nerds care because it connects a Java library, old Google Code docs, Maven artifacts, and a Homebrew CLI wrapper around the once-common task of pre-minifying server-rendered pages.

Zeitleiste

• 2009: Version 0.1 was released, followed by XML compressor, JSP taglib, Velocity, and command-line additions.
• 2011: Version 1.4 migrated the project to Maven and published it as a Maven artifact.
• 2012: Version 1.5.3 was released in the original ChangeLog line.
• 2015: The GitHub repository was created as an export from Google Code.
• 2025: GitHub releases show maintained 1.x and 2.x lines for javax and jakarta namespaces.
• 2026: The GitHub release stream continued with paired 1.x and 2.x artifacts.

Related projects

• Related tools include YUI Compressor, Google Closure Compiler, HTML Tidy, html-minifier, and build-pipeline minifiers that compress HTML, CSS, and JavaScript assets.

Quellen

• Maven Central and Homebrew metadata document package-manager distribution.
• The GitHub ChangeLog documents the original 2009-2012 release line.
• The GitHub README documents the Google Code export, package contents, command-line usage, and javax/jakarta version split.