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by corobo 2345 days ago
Well that’s what I mean. Minifying css/js makes sense as it usually includes a concatenation stage.

Minifying HTML just makes your page source slightly harder to look at. Whitespace would be squashed into almost nothing with in-transit compression.

Probably something nobody ever needs to think of, but as a web dev it’s an argument I’ve had more than once!