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...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

...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>