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fidanov on Dec 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why do we minify JavaScript, yet not HTML?

If you have really a lot of whitespace (like one of the js "gurus" from the Chrome team) then minify may help.

Most of the time GZIP + minify is not significantly smaller then GZIP, and thus minifying HTML or JS is not worth it + may prevents good debugging.

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