[PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Rory Browne
First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth gzip, There are two reasons for this: 1 compression techniques detect repeated strings(such as spaces or newlines), and replaces them with one instance of

[PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread M. Sokolewicz
Rory Browne wrote: First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth gzip, There are two reasons for this: 1 compression techniques detect repeated strings(such as spaces or newlines), and replaces them with

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 5/7/05, M. Sokolewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory Browne wrote: First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth gzip, There are two reasons for this: 1 compression techniques detect

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 5/7/05, M. Sokolewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory Browne wrote: First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth gzip, There are two reasons for this: 1 compression techniques detect

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Charette
M. Sokolewicz wrote: Rory Browne wrote: What might be more useful is stripping out comments, If you don't use javascript it is simply a case of replacing all !-- anything -- with a blank space. If you do though it's more complicated since it is considered good practice to place js inside !--

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Rory Browne
excuse me? since when is this considered /good/ practice??? It's one of those things that are concidered /bad/ practice according to w3... Hmmm, didn't know the w3c had an opinion on the usage of !-- //-- tags to delimit javascript. I've always been recommended to use them, to hide the script

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Rory Browne
Besides, whether or not it's considered good practice to comment out js to non-js-capable browsers, a lot of people do it. And for the record, I wouldn't condone the removal of comments from code that someone may need to read sometime. HTML outputted from php is generally however only meant for

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread M. Sokolewicz
Seems I'm going a bit too far here :) The URL quotes which states to denote JS between !-- -- comment tags is from the HTML 4.0 page. I've been reading lots of XHTML recommendations lately, and have become accustomed to those. In those, when a script isn't understood, it's ignored. Besides that