Re: Size optimization of a HTML document

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On 11/29/05, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/29/05, Andy Pieters <mailings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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