Massimo, About gzipping. It is not true that the webserver does the gzipping at least not every combination of frontend/backend.
1) Rocket does gzipping? 2) Apache + wsgi does gzipping? 3) <server> + fcgi does gzipping? What I know for sure is <server> + SCGI does gzipping: I wrote it so that uses wsgitools wsgi gzip application. I also think UWSGI does the gzip. The server usually gzips only static files. Anyway I think that gzipping can be implemented in python with little overhead since it uses the underlying C implementation. mic 2012/2/3 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>: > OK, let's add a minifier in contrib. > > On Feb 2, 8:16 pm, Kernc <kernc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry for late reply, didn't get any notification by email due to my >> list preferences. It could send me a follow-up on the thread I >> posted... Oh, well... >> >> Minification before gzipping still does make a difference: >> this is my index.html: >> >> $ wc -c minified.html >> 4827 minified.html >> $ wc -c nonminified.html >> 74910 nonminified.html >> $ gzip minified.html && wc -c minified.html.gz >> 2134 minified.html.gz >> $ gzip nonminified.html && wc -c nonminified.html.gz >> 8247 nonminified.html.gz >> >> Nearly 4-fold difference of minified&gzipped over non- >> minified&gzipped. Not to mention minified HTML is faster and easier >> for a browser to parse. And the minified-rendered views take up less >> RAM when cache.ram'd (which is what one should do on nearly all >> pages).... >> >> I would like the feature for its obfuscating nature. It hides the >> implementation more, what is a loop, what is static html, how deep an >> indentation goes... >> >> It must be worth something, Google does it >> (view-source:https://www.google.com/). >> >> The implementation quoted in comment #2 (http://code.google.com/p/ >> web2py/issues/detail?id=369#c2) solves the issue quite well for me. I >> haven't found any new bugs. It even minifies inline JS. It works. :-) >> I renounce all rights to this code, which likely "belong" more to the >> original inventor of >> this:http://packages.python.org/web2py_utils/output.html#compress-output >> (As far as I am concerned, you can just use it.) >> >> I agree a separate htmlminify module is an acceptable solution. :-)
