Re: compact html on the fly

Wico de Leeuw wrote: > > At 10:58 2-8-00 -0400, Daniel Convissor wrote: > >Hi Y'all: > > > >Andreas Pour wrote: > > > > > > bandwidth (which costs more than the extra CPU power to do this) > > > >Yep. > > > > > > > (2) since a browser is supposed to ignore white space, you could get > > > away with stripping it, > > > >Dude, but how much white space for formatting is there in a document compared > >to text? Not much. If you have so much, code your HTML better. > > You don't line out your code? i don't want to see/change it then :) Well, HTML is code like anything else, and when its not indented its quite hard to debug. Since I use a lot of nested tables sometimes 30% of the file is white space. > > > > (3) if the browser supports it, compress, e.g., $buffer = > > > gzcompress($buffer) (this, BTW, can be a huge savings, converting a 100K > > > HTML document to 10K, which means you can serve 10 times the web pages > > > on the same bandwidth as almost all browser support this now) > > Anyone know how to detect if the browser supports this and to implent this? I think if (ereg($HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING, "gzip")) start buffering else don't bother Ciao, Andreas