On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:55:38PM -0700, Mark Fuller wrote:
> From: "petersm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Why should this matter (besides the bandwidth issue)? HTML ignores
> whitespace
> > and other than looking at the output of a template every now and then to
> make
> > sure that it is what you want, why do you care what the output looks like?
>
> Why take bandwidth off the table? I gave an example (of a table) where the
> whitespace could be significant. And, as has been mentioned, there are
> occasions when the unintended whitespace *does* affect the final rendering.
> In one prior discussion someone gave an example of the <image> element.
> Keith just gave an example concerning email. (It may not have come out on
> the list by the time you replied to me).
For those curious about one (fairly random) set of numbers, I found a
15-30% reduction in template size by running htmlclean (from
HTML::Clean) on my templates before installing them, with an average
somewhere around 25%. So, yeah, bandwidth is somewhat relevant. OTOH,
the way I got those numbers defines one solution to the bandwidth
issue.
> The question of why I would care what H::T output looks like is subjective.
> Someone could suggest that I put all the H::T elements on one line and ask
> "why do you care what the template looks like?" Authoring is subjective. I
> just don't think I should get something out of H::T that I didn't intend. I
> don't think the tags should influence the resulting whitespace.
...
Personally, I would like this feature, because we did briefly mess
around with trying to use HTML::Template for templating Ascii text
(email report generation) and found it overwhelmingly painful as it
stands. We simply deferred the text-only output feature and have had
no complaints asking for it so far.
However, I didn't complain to this list at that time, because I
figured that after all, the package is called *HTML* Template, and
whitespace is defined as irrelevant to HTML. I decided back then that
if it turned out we really needed a system that would work equally well
for text and HTML, I'd switch to Template Toolkit or something like
that.
(Though having seen Karen's formatting suggestion, I think I'd try
that first. Neatly done!)
-- Clifton
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