If the goal is to not have apps be too large, you probably don't want to send the full variable and function names and all of the comments over the wire every time someone loads a webpage. That would be a very inefficient use of bandwidth, wouldn't it?

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't we have compression built into http already?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

I guess it’s easier and safer to make a string replace for each function name beforehand than hoping the compression algorithm will figure that out.

Also, as SpaceCowboy points out, comments are completely useless for the final web page. There’s no need to even compress them.