This blog post is 16 years old! Most likely, its content is outdated. Especially if it's technical.
Last week Fry-IT released CheckoutableTemplates which is a templating module add-on for Zope. It includes a module called slimmer.py
which can compress XHTML, HTML and CSS. The CSS had a flaw in it that I hadn't foreseen. This flaw arises when you use M$ Internet Explorer hacks like this for example:
#centercontent {
margin-left: 259px;
margin-right:249px;
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family: inherit;
margin-left: 271px;
margin-right:251px;
}
Now that bug has been fixed, so I give you: The XHTML, HTML and CSS compressor It's a little application of
slimmer.py
so that the compressing can be tested and so that one can see the effect.
- Previous:
- PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite 04 April 2004
- Next:
- How to fold clothes 07 April 2004
- Related by category:
- fastest way to turn HTML into text in Python 08 January 2021 Python
- How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to PostgreSQL? 28 September 2019 Python
- Best practice with retries with requests 19 April 2017 Python
- Fastest way to find out if a file exists in S3 (with boto3) 16 June 2017 Python, Web development
- How to create-react-app with Docker 17 November 2017 Web development
- Related by keyword:
- Ultrafast loading of CSS 01 September 2017
- CSS selector simplifier regular expression in JavaScript 20 December 2017
- Advanced Closure Compiler vs UglifyJS2 20 January 2016
- mincss "Clears the junk out of your CSS" 21 January 2013
- Optimize DOM selector lookups by pre-warming by selectors' parents 11 February 2019
These guys have done it with JavaScript but not as good and they hope to sell each license for $7.
http://www.creativyst.com/Prod/3/
hey, i've been working on something like this for a while now http://flumpcakes.co.uk/css/optimiser/
I like it. It's much more clever than mine. We should combine our efforts since we obviously take two completely different approaches and that they would work together. What programming language do you use?
Congratulations on a great web site. I am a new computer user and finding you was like coming home. Continued success.
Congratulations on a great web site. I am a new computer user and finding you was like coming home. Continued success.
Congratulations on a great web site. I am a new computer user and finding you was like coming home. Continued success.
How do you think. If I quit using internet... No, CAN I quit?
{links:30
Hi,
I was trying your nice tool for compressing an XHTML file, but the compressor removes white-spaces from an attribute value (that is between double quotation marks).
I hope you can correct this,
Thanks!
Really?? That's a bug. Can you provide me with an example where it happens and I'll try to fix it.
Here is an example:
<example attribute="This is a test." />
Well, add spaces between the double quotation marks.
It seems that this tool removes spaces too.
I see the problem. It actually saves whitespace before and after but not inside the attribute. example (. replaces whitespace):
>>> from slimmer import html_slimmer
>>> html='''<example attribute="....This is....a test...." />'''
>>> html_slimmer(html)
'<example attribute="....This is a test...." />'
You're right. It is a bug.
However, I can't find the time to work on this now. To begin with, whitespace slimming on HTML is often less important since HTML is often regenerated every time unlike CSS and Javascript which is often more static and needs only to be slimmed once per build.
I've taken note of the bug but not going to commit any time to it now I'm afraid. Thanks for spotting it!
OK.
It does not matter.
Is not there an executable version or source code of your code?
No but you could quite easily make one yourself with py2exe. The instructions are quite easy.
Good afternoon. I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I am from Cyprus and now study English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "More than 16,000 graphics and more than 60 card girls banked in the system defence, easyhome prepaid mastercard."
Thanks :o. Deborah.