Re: Size optimization of a HTML document

From: Matt Morgan (minxmertzmomo_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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    On 11/29/05, Paul Smith <phhs80@gmail.com> wrote:
    > On 11/29/05, Andy Pieters <mailings@vlaamse-kern.com> wrote:
    > > > Is there some way of optimize the size of a HTML document?
    > >
    > > There are MANY ways to optimize the size of a html document.
    > >
    > > One thing to note is that if you manually make the html document, that it
    > > might quickly become a burden.
    > >
    > > If you are following current standards, you already seperated content from
    > > layout so all your stylesheets and javascripts are already external
    > > references.
    > >
    > > That said, it is perfectly legal to strip *all* line breaks from the document
    > > (I DO mean linebreaks and not <br>'s)
    > >
    > > Also, since html collapses whitespaces you can remove all sequences where
    > > there is more then one whitespace.
    > >
    > > Example (the _ denotes whitespace)
    > >
    > > <p>This_is_a__________sentence</p>
    > >
    > > In this example all the whitespace between a and sentence can be converted to
    > > a single one, since it will be treated that way by the html parser.
    > >
    > > Keep in mind that if you later have to edit the document manually, things will
    > > be more difficult for you because the linebreaks are to make the source more
    > > human readable.
    > >
    > > With kind regards
    >
    > Thanks, Andy. To edit HTML documents, I use nvu. However, after having
    > removed some links, the document stays with the same size. I
    > understand your strategy, but is there some automatic way of doing
    > that? I mean a program to automatically optimize the size of a HTML
    > document.

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