RE: [PHP] stripping white space?

AFAIK some browsers can have trouble with lines longer than 255 chars. so you might need to throw in some linebreaks after all... PS: Can anyone enlighten me concerning HTTP compression? > Hi Maxim, > > > 1. HTTP compression, which is not 100% compatible, but catches most > > of the browsers anyway. > > Yes. The standard PHP implementation actually inspects the HTTP headers to > determine if the browser supports gzip encoding. If not, it will send the > files uncompressed. Looking at our website stats, 97%+ of the people use a > version 4 browser so they're fine. > > > 2. Our own caching system: in two words: ob_*() to save the output > > as a text file, mod_rewrite to check for file and throw the plain .txt > files > > if exist, PostgreSQL triggers to update (delete cached) .txt files. > > Hah! We think alike :) I implemented a similar system on our own website a > few weeks ago. It does not cache complete pages (that's hardly > possible due > to the dynamic nature of our site), but instead caches HTML > 'blocks'. (one > page can consist of multiple blocks). Instead of serving those files > directly from the filesystem I let PHP inspect them first: each file > contains a timestamp that allows for expiry times. > > The results are wonderful: our website (http://www.blender.nl) has > approximately 80.000 pageviews a day and the system load is almost never > higher than 0.4. (Dual PIII/450/512MB/FreeBSD) > > If people are interested I'll publish the code for the caching module. > > > 3. Browser/Platform detection: there's no need to make > > cross-platform heavy but compatible pages, just specific style > sheets and > > html tags for specific browser families. > > Clever! That's something I will put on my to-do list as well. > > > 4. clever HTML design, so there are less tags, tables etc, to have > > files smaller. And *that* also includes less comments and > double quotes on > > integers. We do nothing with XML, so that is why I am so shocked why > people > > here discourage me that much. > > In my experience once you use HTTP compression, adding a few comments or > whitelines do hardly add to the filesize anymore. I don't think it's worth > the trouble to write super-compact HTML. > > I don't know a single thing about XML, so I'll skip that discussion :) > > Bart > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >