Are you just trying to decrease the network payload? If so, maybe just set the server to gzip the content. Once gzipped, minifying will probably only provide modest additional benefit, and may not be worth the extra processing.
Anthony On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, Kernc wrote: > > Hi, > > Looking to this list for guidance... > > The web2py issue #369 (http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail? > id=369 <http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=369>) discusses > a possible method of minifying response output HTML > (compressing it as in removing all extraneous whitespace). The issue > was closed with WontFix because "minify feature is now built-into > web2py". I looked through the book, 4th Ed., and the only minifcation > I found (http://web2py.com/books/default/search/29?search=minify) was > that of CSS/JavaScript (response.optimize_css). > > In a later issue (http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail? > id=624 <http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=624>), again > opened by yours truly, Massimo said, "Will fix the > book. This is already in stable." Yet the only minification I see in > the source tree is for CSS/JS (http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/ > browse/#hg/gluon/contrib/minify<http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/#hg/gluon/contrib/minify>). > > > > I'd like to know where's my response.render({...}, minify=True) or how > else am I to use supposedly-existent HTML minification feature. > > There is popular demand: > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/1cd9856537e9a6db/392f2c8fc6c6ef4b > > > Thank you!
