do you obfuscate client code?

[jason_m]

this question is self explanatory. is it common practice to obfuscate code released to client websites maintaining a local copy of non-obfuscated?

thanks!

[Fotiman]

Obfuscate? No.
Minimize? Yes.

Note, minimizing might also obfuscate to some degree. For example, the Yahoo Compressor may change variable names to be as short as possible, so something like this:

var myreallylongvariablename;

might become:

var A;

It's good practice to use minimized code for production environments, but don't do it with the intention of trying to obfuscate code. Obfuscating does not provide any real protection of the code.