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I'm a bit confused by this too. My static site generator also generates mostly-pretty HTML, but not because there's a prettification pass, it's just because the

I'm a bit confused by this too. My static site generator also generates mostly-pretty HTML, but not because there's a prettification pass, it's just because the templates themselves are pretty (because I wrote them that way). Surely the prettiness of the source that you actually edit is even more important than the final result?

hunter2_ 3y ago
> Surely the prettiness of the source that you actually edit is even more important than the final result? A pretty final result can help with all sorts of future scenarios, like piping curl into grep for quickly checking if something exists. Similarly, I despise CSS preprocessing since figuring out a solution in the browser then has to be backported, hopefully with a source map to assist.
- Retr0id 3y ago
  Right, that's why I don't use minifiers. My pretty templates render to pretty HTML, with no additional prettification pass needed.