Re: html and css code bloat

Christian Heimes <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:34:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.devel,gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.design
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alexander Limi wrote:
> Compacting the code doesn't make much sense, correct. mod_gzip does.  
> Surprisingly few people know about it. Even Zope can do this kind of  
> encoding natively, and writing a small MonkeyPatch that turns it on 
> should  be very easy. Anybody up for it? :)

You don't need a monkey patch - you simply have to enable it by setting 
a response var somewhere in a template.

> In my opinion, Plone should ship with this as default.

I made a feature request about half an year ago ...

> Not really. Browsers that don't support this are given uncompressed  
> versions of the page, and I believe all recent versions of Netscape 4  
> support it - I haven't seen any problems loading plone.org in my tests  
> with Netscape 4.

Great ;)

Christian



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