--- fulljsmin-orig.js	2009-11-05 13:36:42.283842300 -0600
+++ fulljsmin.js	2009-11-05 13:39:22.482842300 -0600
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-/* jsmin.js - 2006-08-31
+/* jsmin.js - 2009-11-05
+Author: Billy Hoffman
+This is a patched version of jsmin.js created by Franck Marcia which
+supports important comments denoted with /*! ...
+Permission is hereby granted to use the Javascript version under the same
+conditions as the jsmin.js on which it is based.
+
+jsmin.js - 2006-08-31
 Author: Franck Marcia
 This work is an adaptation of jsminc.c published by Douglas Crockford.
 Permission is hereby granted to use the Javascript version under the same
@@ -132,17 +139,41 @@
 				}
 				break;
 			case '*':
+				//this is a comment. What kind?
 				get();
-				for (;;) {
-					switch (get()) {
-					case '*':
-						if (peek() == '/') {
-							get();
-							return ' ';
+				if(peek() == '!') {
+					//important comment
+					var d = '/*!';
+					for (;;) {
+						c = get();
+						switch (c) {
+						case '*':
+							if (peek() == '/') {
+								get();
+								return d+'*/';
+							}
+							break;
+						case EOF:
+							throw 'Error: Unterminated comment.';
+						default:
+							//modern JS engines handle string concats much better than the 
+							//array+push+join hack.
+							d+=c;
+						}
+					}					
+				} else {
+					//unimportant comment
+					for (;;) {
+						switch (get()) {
+						case '*':
+							if (peek() == '/') {
+								get();
+								return ' ';
+							}
+							break;
+						case EOF:
+							throw 'Error: Unterminated comment.';
 						}
-						break;
-					case EOF:
-						throw 'Error: Unterminated comment.';
 					}
 				}
 				break;