RE: making html smaller

Technically, the HTML spec says that attributes for HTML tags should be name-value pairs with the value quoted. Reducing the size of your generated HTML is admirable, but how you're trying to do it will not gain you any signifigant savings.

String	Length
<font face="arial, helvetica, verdana">	40
<font face=arial, helvetica, verdana>	35
Savings	12.5%

When you consider there are still the end tag and whatever was inside the font tag, your savings goes down even further.
In summary, I would spend most of my effort on a clean design and layout of the webpages, and let the tags fall as they may.

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RE: RE: making html smaller by visnu (Sexton) on Jul 26, 2000 at 01:41 UTC
well, for a bigger picture, this is for a post processing step that goes through and reduces the html as much as possible, which then gets posted on the live website.. this is not used in the maintainable version of the html. that and 12.5% is significant when you think about all the font tags that are needed in tables across a huge website.	[reply]