Re: [Re: [PHP] PHP editor]

You are correct, but I believe the bandwidth savings is small. What I usually do for my apps is allow the admin to configure whitespace trimming. If configured, I only remove whitespace from the beginning of the line to the first non-whitespace character. This reduces the code size somewhat, while still leaving the HTML human-readable (newlines are intact). cheers, Travis Arthur Radulescu wrote:

What I meant was that it is obiously that eliminating the spaces but not by a blind replacement, the new lines characters and even the tabs will reduce the size of the page which will result in a faster loading and less bandwidth consumed... And the example was google... Am I wrong with anything here? [snip] PHP is one thing and HTML is another thing.. Check the google source code and you'll that this is how they have it... I assume the reason is to reduce the size of the page... [snip] Your assumption about Google would be incorrect, it has nothing to do with page size as most of their pages are predominately text. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#whitespace for a more detailed dissertation on white space in HTML.

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