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-Welcome to the minify wiki!
+Welcome to Minify!
+==================
+
+Minify is an HTTP server for JS and CSS assets. It compresses and combines files
+and serves it with appropriate headers, allowing conditional GET or long-Expires.
+
+| *Before* | ![7 requests](http://mrclay.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/fiddler_before.png) |
+|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
+| *After*  | ![2 requests](http://mrclay.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/fiddler_after.png)  |
+
+The stats above are from a [brief walkthrough](http://mrclay.org/index.php/2008/09/19/minify-21-on-mrclayorg/) which shows how easy it is to set up Minify on an existing site. It eliminated 5 HTTP requests and reduced JS/CSS bandwidth by 70%.
+
+Relative URLs in CSS files are rewritten to compensate for being served from a different directory.
+
+News
+----
+
+Version [2.3.0](https://github.com/mrclay/minify/releases/tag/2.3.0) was released, mainly to deprecate some classes that will be removed in 3.0.
+
+Wordpress User?
+---------------
+
+Consider instead using a dedicated WordPress plugin for more deep integration and simpler installation. E.g.:
+- [BWP Minify](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bwp-minify/)
+- [W3 Total Cache](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)
+
+Unfortunately we can't support the WordPress plugins here.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Place the `/min/` directory as a child of your DOCUMENT_ROOT
+directory: i.e. you will have: `/home/example/www/min`
+
+You can see verify that it is working by visiting these two URLs:
+- http://example.org/min/?f=min/quick-test.js
+- http://example.org/min/?f=min/quick-test.css
+
+If your server supports mod_rewrite, this URL should also work:
+- http://example.org/min/f=min/quick-test.js
+
+Configuration & Usage
+---------------------
+
+See the MIN.txt file and the [user guide](https://github.com/mrclay/minify/blob/master/docs/UserGuide.wiki.md)
+
+Minify also comes with a [URI Builder application](https://github.com/mrclay/minify/blob/master/docs/BuilderApp.wiki.md) that can help you write URLs
+for use with Minify or configure groups of files.
+
+See the [cookbook](https://github.com/mrclay/minify/blob/master/docs/CookBook.wiki.md) for more advanced options for minification.
+
+More [docs are available](https://github.com/mrclay/minify/tree/master/docs).
+
+Support
+-------
+
+[Google Group](http://groups.google.com/group/minify)
+
+Unit Testing
+------------
+
+1. Place the /min_unit_tests/ directory as a child of your DOCUMENT_ROOT
+directory: i.e. you will have: /home/example/www/min_unit_tests
+
+2. To run unit tests, access: http://example.org/min_unit_tests/test_all.php
+
+  (If you wish, the other test_*.php files can be run to test individual
+components with more verbose output.)
+
+3. Remove /min_unit_tests/ from your DOCUMENT_ROOT when you are done.
+
+Warnings
+--------
+
+  * Minify is designed for efficiency, but, for very high traffic sites, it will probably serve files slower than your HTTPd due to the CGI overhead of PHP. See the [FAQ](https://github.com/mrclay/minify/blob/master/docs/FAQ.wiki.md#how-fast-is-it) and [CookBook](https://github.com/mrclay/minify/blob/master/docs/CookBook.wiki.md) for more info.
+  * If you combine a lot of CSS, watch out for [IE's 4096 selectors-per-file limit](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9906889/3779), affects IE 6 through 9.
+  * Minify *should* work fine with files encoded in UTF-8 or other 8-bit encodings like ISO 8859/Windows-1252. By default Minify appends ";charset=utf-8" to the Content-Type headers it sends.
+
+Acknowledgments
+---------------
+
+Minify was inspired by [jscsscomp](http://code.google.com/p/jscsscomp/) by Maxim Martynyuk and by the article [Supercharged JavaScript](http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Supercharged_Javascript) by Patrick Hunlock.
+
+The [JSMin library](http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html) used for JavaScript minification was originally written by Douglas Crockford and was [ported to PHP](https://github.com/mrclay/jsmin-php) by Ryan Grove specifically for use in Minify.