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. Paul
