RE: [PHP] stripping white space?

"We do nothing with XML, so that is why I am so shocked why people here discourage me that much." Even HTML is headed toward a more efficient structure. The current browser companies won't hold on to old code for long, just to make everything backward compatible. Next thing we know, we'll have to download a 100MB IE browser just cause it supports backward compatibility of older HTML and client-side coding practices, which in turn will discourage people to download a newer version of a browser. Imagine the year 2010, where uncle bob is still stuck with IE 4.0 while everyone else is using IE 15.0. And guess what? Uncle Bob is the one with the money to shop online, not little joey who was born to see the 10.0 version and nothing earlier. W3C will not maintain older DTDs for HTML 3.2 for long, language practices die too, just like browsers and Windows 3.1/95. Standards are emerging to make it easier for everyone. Technology moves forward, not backward. By using good HTML practices, you're helping technology move in a steady upward motion. Saving a few bytes will soon not make a difference once everyone jumps into the high speed bandwagon, or when the broadband bottleneck phenomenon is broken and when no one needs to worry about broadband anymore. If you want small file sizes use other practices such as decreasing image size or quality, etc. Just don't contaminate the web with the architecture drawings of the prehistoric wheel. And I don't mean to sound so harsh, please don't take it personally.