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... plotted over time on the x axis and length on the y-axis to be really useful.

I've heard/read that some JavaScript minifiers add in return characters b.c. some browsers have a maximum line length that can be rendered. What is it for modern browsers? FF, IE, Safari, and Chrome. Any will suffice as a starting point.

I've also heard that breaking the lines up is for firewalls and proxies which have a maximum length that can be parsed. Google closure puts this at around 500 lines.

But this question regards the browsers capabilities.

Here is a link to information that puts the browser issue, at around 32K.

https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS

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SO Post regarding proxies

There is definitely some consistency lacking in what minifiers think this needs to be set to.

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  • This question appears to be off-topic because the answers may be relevant for only a short period of time. Browsers change at a fairly rapid pace, so what is modern at the time the question is asked may not be modern a few months from now when someone stumbles on this question. – Bryan Oakley Aug 17 '13 at 17:08
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    updated question for a non-time based answer. – mark_huffington Aug 17 '13 at 17:13

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