Comments on: Spaceless HTML in Django

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By: lericson

lericson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:28:23 +0000

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By: Martyn Clement

Martyn Clement — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:54:58 +0000

I suggest this tag should be effective only on setting debug=False
Debugging html on viewing html source code is quite common.
That’s what I did

By: Dougal Matthews

Dougal Matthews — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:06:43 +0000

Shame it messes up the pre and textarea tags was gonna use it otherwise.

Intersting idea though!

By: Dougal Matthews

Dougal Matthews — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:06:04 +0000

Shame it messes up the

 and  tags   was gonna use it otherwise.

Intersting idea though!

By: Chris Kelly

Chris Kelly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:15:06 +0000

The whitespace tag is really simple, it just finds the end of one tag and the beginning of another with whitespace in between, and removes said whitespace. It looks like it doesn't have any special cases, so it unfortunately affects textarea and pre tag content.

see: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tr...

By: David Cramer

David Cramer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:55:54 +0000

We GZIP as well. Sadly, everyone's still not on broadband today, so even shaving off 5 or 10k from the request can be quite useful (especially when the amount of time it takes to do that is immeasurable).

By: David Cramer

David Cramer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:55:14 +0000

Uneducated trolls.. sound like something that every community is famous for.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:49:59 +0000

solving a non-issue with a sub-optimal technique and posting a blag about it… this feels like the type of publicity the rails community is so famous for…

By: Florent V.

Florent V. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:52:26 +0000

Hello,

I'm curious: why outputting whitespace-less HTML when you could just use gzip compression on the server for HTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript, and get better results (like from 300 kB — not kb — to, say, 120 kB)? Did you do some performance testing regarding that?

Unless gzipping your text output has a clear performance cost, I would keep my HTML code with whitespace (if not perfect, then at least decently readable code). Makes it easier to debug when you need to check the real thing (Firebug only shows what Firefox understands, not what it gets from the server).

Do you happen to use this method, then gzip (through mod_deflate for instance)? If so, how much do you save compared to a gzipped version with all whitespace intact?