On Dec 15, 2009, at 8:13 AM, kbochert wrote: > Jonathon wrote: >> 2x seems like an awful lot, since a newline is only one byte. Are you sure? > > The output typically has multiple leading spaces on those blank > lines, presumably driven by the indenting of the original html.
I finally noticed the attachments. It does seem like a pathological case, though (v. short lines and lots of whitespace). > > DenesL wrote: >> Do you want you view or your final output to be legible and >> aesthetically pleasing according to some subjective human standard?. > > Absolutely! > For instance, I'm currently looking for a designer to style my site. > The first thing I do is surf to their home page and look at its source > code! > If I'm evangelizing web2py to colleagues, clean output helps. (makes > me prouder of my work, at least) I agree that good-looking output is a plus. It doesn't seem unreasonable to ask developers to understand how web2py templates work, and design accordingly. It's not a mystery where the white space is coming from, and the developer has complete control. One problem, though, is that there *is* a conflict between good-looking (and readable, and maintainable) template source, and the appearance of the output. We use (and should use) white space liberally to make our code readable. If that same white space leaks into the output, it generally looks pretty random. Those of us that write straight html are doing both at the same time. Our html needs to be maintainable *as source*. A different standard needs to be applied to generated html, since it won't be (directly) maintained. What I like about using a filter (slimmer or the like) is that it leaves you free to write readable source, and end up with decent output. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
