I am thinking of releasing a CSS minifaction library, which has dependencies on other libraries.Since CSS Minification is not something that occurs a lot (compared to optimising PDFs for example), I have two options:I could make it downloadable, however, it means that the user needsto download 3-4 other libraries, just to make everything run.I could create a web service that receives a HTTP post and returnsthe minified file as a response.Now a days there is a lot of talk about the Cloud and Cloud Services, and perhaps the approach to releasing tools such as this should be included in that discussion as well.So basically the question is: What are the pros and cons of online/cloud tools compared to downloadable tools?
Releasing a CSS minification tool - should it be downloadable or accessable through the cloud?
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The main advantage of downloadable css compressors is offline usage.The advantage of an online css compressor is security for the user. Some users may not feel comfortable downloading an unknown script.