I happen to be one of "those people" and I can say that the practice is under utilized by the programming industry as a whole. And I am neither anal nor ANAL, it is simply the method of coding I like to use once I have a page developed to a point I no I will only be touching it up here and there.
As I stated previously, I look at it as building a rocket to go to the moon - you want light but solid and reliable. I HATE bloat and that is all the stuff that makes code pretty and "easily readable" by inexperienced programmers does. If some one wants to review the code they can take the few seconds to do a find "}" and replace with "[return]}[return]" find "{" and replace with "[space]{[space][return]" find ";" and replace with ";[return] [space] [space] [space] [space]" find ":" and replace with ":[space] find "," and replace with ",[space] And you have the css stylesheet "decrunched" to the point it is "fat" pretty again. And with html, PHP and JAVA, I do the same thing wherever possible. I always use this as a challenge to people - build a little 4-page site to play with under the following rules: Less than three http requests per page Uses advanced technologies to make the site "visually interesting and is not just "plain text." 1 css file - under one packet in size (less than 1160 bytes) Page loads in under 5 seconds on 56k Once you do that than optimize it to be as tiny as possible - how small can you get it? -----Original Message----- From: Jason Turnbull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Trimming the fat from CSS > Nick Lo wrote: > Does everyone else on the list do this? > For the sake of 11k that is cached on the first page load it seems a > little drastic I would agree its not going to save much, having readable code is much more important, I wonder if people who do this also remove all spaces/tabs within the html code Jason ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************