Show HN: Excssive, drag and drop CSS compressor
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If you're doing a project that needs to have scripts and css minified, the last thing you'd want to do is to introduce a manual drag/drop/arrange/copy/paste step into your build and deploy process. You'll have a command line tool that you incorporate into your automated build and that will be the last you think of it.
I suspect this will get used in the critical path of actual projects about as often as jsbeautifier.org does for javascript. As in, pretty much never.
The real world use case is currently one of my developer friends is using the Foundation framework by Zurb (which comes with a bunch of separate CSS files, so you can pick and choose), and instead of having 5-6 <link> elements (extraneous HTTP requests are bad), those can all be packaged up in one minifed CSS file.
Using that as a vanilla reset, he can link to another CSS file with his modifications and changes — and never has to interact with the commandline clean-css or YUI Compressor utility. It's just drag and drop with the same results.
Take a look at tools like Jammit and Juicer to figure out how to integrate your code into their workflow.