[Bug 28832] comments that can survive in minified files

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28832

--- Comment #4 from Nick Levinson <Nick_Levinson@yahoo.com> ---
I don't view the world as quite that near to black and white and most even
mildly competent geeks don't do something just because SomeBody Big and
Massively Important Said So. I don't do any minification now, although I also
don't write HTML or CSS with massive amounts of whitespace, either. The reason
I don't minify is that I want to upload the comments that I have, but some
programmers write comments that they don't need to upload, usually comments
explaining things about the programming per se. I think the general practice is
that one keeps a set of preminification files that can be uploaded to a website
and that's what one would edit for content, style, layout, etc., making copies
just for minifying and uploading. Minification is being mentioned in various
places lately and I can see why it would be beneficial, especially if a page is
large and a user's connection is slow (an example of a big page is
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/single-page.html>, which takes a while to load even
on my WiFi laptop, which I accept since I want a single page for searching and
I usually do other things while it loads). Google is not being hypocritical, as
far as I know; the source code for their search home
(https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl as of a few minutes ago) is minified and
has no comments. I don't think Google would object to some comments being kept
despite minification, since a second comment format or marker would be
explicitly for that purpose (it doesn't matter that the purpose wasn't
previously addressed in HTML5 since many things are added because technology
and practice evolve) and Google's engineers can surely understand an
explanation on that point.

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