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Experimenting with html minifier

• ojbyrne 16y ago
  One of the things I've thought would be interesting to try, would be if you could reduce class and id names to 1 or 2 character strings a la javascript minifiers. You'd have to do globally across all html files, and linked css and js files, so it would be a bit challenging.
  • eru 16y ago
    But aren't class and id names part of the (extended) user interface? Users are expected to be able to write their own CSS spreadsheets for your site.
    • ojbyrne 16y ago
      Good point. Though they still could, right? As long as the class/id names were always "minified" to the same one or two letters.
      • eru 16y ago
        That would be the minimum. Meaningful names would be even better, though.
• pepijndevos 16y ago
  If you look at the difference in gzipped size, there is not so much difference. Is it all really worth it? The way gzip works means that a repetitive sequence of newlines and tabs will likely be only one char in the final output.
  • eru 16y ago
    So this minimizer looks like premature optimization.
• TrevorBurnham 16y ago
  ...minifying XHTML documents (given that they’re actually served to clients properly, with “application/xhtml+xml”) doesn’t reduce size as much as if they were HTML. I don't understand. Why can't the size of XHTML documents be reduced as much as HTML ones? And why would the MIME type matter?
  • tl 16y ago
    HTML is more liberal about missing close tags, so minifying HTML should include removing those tags when the page is pushed to the browser.
    • 83457 16y ago
      Also for attributes. One of his first code examples shows this. <input disabled="disabled"> to <input disabled>