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Does HTML ever need minifying? Serving using compression would handle it wouldn’t it?

• curben 7y ago
  html minifer mostly just remove the whitespaces. Compression (gzip or brotli) preserves the source, i.e. decompressed file is exactly the same as the original's; whereas minifier alters the source.
  • corobo 7y ago
    Well that’s what I mean. Minifying css/js makes sense as it usually includes a concatenation stage. Minifying HTML just makes your page source slightly harder to look at. Whitespace would be squashed into almost nothing with in-transit compression. Probably something nobody ever needs to think of, but as a web dev it’s an argument I’ve had more than once!