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Originally Posted by sross

So let me get this right. for the lite version I place in the includes file:



Questions.. does this alter all my files or is it only changing whats output? I mean if I open my files via ftp will they be all compressed?
-If something goes wrong can I back out of this by just removing the code? What happened to that guy above who tried to back out and is toast? I'd like to install this but am scared it will screw something up beyond repair? thanks!

To answer if that would give you the lite version... yes that would.

It compresses the output given to any web request... not your source files... so your files via FTP are untouched, this only strips whitespace from what is returned to a web request.

If you don't like this, then delete the lines you added.

Not sure which guy couldn't back out and is toast... there's just nothing that can really go wrong, it doesn't touch your source files, your templates, nothing.

The only scenario that might put you off is this: If your forum has people posting stuff within <pre> blocks (think the [code] bbcode) then where that depends on whitespace for formatting the whitespace is removed and formatting can be mucked up as a result.

So if you're a technical forum where people post chunks of HTML in code tags, then you might think that this hack is not for you.

However in all other cases this hack has no ill effect on your forum and does speed up rendering of the page on most browsers (I haven't viewed it in Opera, Safari or Lynx so I have no idea what it does for them, but IE and Firefox both seem to render faster with this hack in place), which is the point of it