Here's something very cool (via Digg) for anyone who develops applications that leverage JavaScript, the TRYNT JavaScript Compression API.

While Vidar is focused on local search and thus map based interfaces we, like most Web 2.0 development groups, use more then a little JavaScript to "make the magic happen." We're still playing with it but our in our next application you will definitely be seeing this technology in action.

To give you an idea of the value of this API we compressed the XHConn which started at a trim 1336 bytes. After compression we shrunk XHConn to 902 bytes which 67.51% of the scripts original size. In the real world I expect this should translate to faster loading scripts and bandwidth saving.