[Phpmyadmin-devel] about the "\n"

[Dieter Adriaenssens]

2012/4/28 Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>:
> On 28/04/12 08:52, Marc Delisle wrote:
>> Le 2012-04-27 16:39, Dieter Adriaenssens a écrit :
>>> Op 27 april 2012 21:11 heeft Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> het
>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>> Le 2012-04-27 14:55, Rouslan Placella a écrit :
>>>>> On 27/04/12 14:26, Marc Delisle wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> When touching a piece of code, if you see a "\n" generated for HTML,
>>>>>> it's pretty much safe to remove it (if proven otherwise, we'll build a
>>>>>> wiki page documenting those cases).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The reason was to generate more readable HTML code; now that we
>>>>>> (hopefully) use Firebug to look at the generated HTML, these "\n" are no
>>>>>> longer needed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure how good of an idea this is. What about the casual user
>>>>> that might want to have a stab at figuring out where something is going
>>>>> wrong, for example? Such a user may not have firebug.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bye,
>>>>> Rouslan
>>>>
>>>> It's mostly older parts of the codebase that are using "\n", so this
>>>> casual user already has this problem.
>>>
>>> For esthetic reasons I prefer to use the "\n", the produced html looks
>>> cleaner and better structured. It's a bit like using a coding style
>>> (indentation, ...) to have readable code.
>>
>> Dieter,
>> aren't you using Firebug to look at the HTML?

I've used it before, especially when I need to tinker with some layout and css.
On my Windows box at work I have the TidyHTML plugin installed, which
kicks in when you look at the HTML source.
So far this fulfilled my needs, but I guess it will be

> I wouldn't call Dieter a casual user, but this kind of proves my point.
> Also, I don't think that removing all the newlines will give us any
> noticeable decrease in page load times.
>
>>>
>>> But it's a lot of work to apply it everywhere, so the question is if
>>> it's worth the effort.
>>> I don't need it, I usually use the Find function to find what I'm
>>> looking for in the html output anyway, or read the sourcecode.



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Kind regards,

Dieter Adriaenssens