"Andrew" == Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> writes:
Andrew> Dear fellow PG volunteers, Andrew> I know that discussing issues of markup in PG files is a Andrew> pointless argument that rarely goes anywhere. Still, I Andrew> must ask if is it generally acceptable to most PG Andrew> volunteers to have HTML files in the collection with Andrew> massive amounts of redundant white space in them? Andrew> By this point in time, there are megabytes of storage Andrew> space in the PG archive which consist of only spaces Andrew> because of much indentation in html files. Andrew> Take a look at the html source of the recently released Andrew> Edward Lear "A Book of Nonsense" to see an example a Andrew> little more extreme than most I've seen: I have taken the file, unzipped, replaced every multiple whitespace with single withspace and rezipped; the saving has been 365 bytes (out of 640KB). The message of Andrew, as received by me, with all the headers etc, was 3247 bytes. Although one might discuss logical indenting in html sources, versus 75 column texts, I don't think that the space is at issue; discussing bytes, or even megabytes, when the archive is terabytes, is discussing 00001% savings. Carlo