Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread M. Sokolewicz
Seems I'm going a bit too far here :) The URL quotes which states to denote JS between comment tags is from the HTML 4.0 page. I've been reading lots of XHTML recommendations lately, and have become accustomed to those. In those, when a

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Rory Browne
Besides, whether or not it's considered good practice to comment out js to non-js-capable browsers, a lot of people do it. And for the record, I wouldn't condone the removal of comments from code that someone may need to read sometime. HTML outputted from php is generally however only meant for th

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Rory Browne
> excuse me? since when is this considered /good/ practice??? > It's one of those things that are concidered /bad/ practice according to > w3... Hmmm, didn't know the w3c had an opinion on the usage of tags to delimit javascript. I've always been recommended to use them, to hide the script from b

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Charette
M. Sokolewicz wrote: > Rory Browne wrote: > >> What might be more useful is stripping out comments, If you don't use >> javascript it is simply a case of replacing all with >> a blank space. If you do though it's more complicated since it is >> considered good practice to place js inside blocks,

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 5/7/05, M. Sokolewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rory Browne wrote: > > > First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) > > going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth > > gzip, > > > > There are two reasons for this: > > 1 compression techniq

Re: [PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 5/7/05, M. Sokolewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rory Browne wrote: > > > First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) > > going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth > > gzip, > > > > There are two reasons for this: > > 1 compression techniq

[PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread M. Sokolewicz
Rory Browne wrote: First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth gzip, There are two reasons for this: 1 compression techniques detect repeated strings(such as spaces or newlines), and replaces them with o

[PHP] Re: Reducing size of htm output

2005-05-07 Thread Rory Browne
First of all as Rasmus said, this 'compression' is barely(if at all) going to make a difference, after your pages have been compressed wth gzip, There are two reasons for this: 1 compression techniques detect repeated strings(such as spaces or newlines), and replaces them with one instance of tha