RealTime Template Compressor: Reduces page sizes, loads pages faster, saves Bandwidth

As you know all vbulletin pages consists of templates and templates consists of HTML (+sometimes javascript) tags.

Nearly in all sites and HTML pages, HTML tags are written in a readable format so that developer can read the source code easily. VB templates abide by this rule too.

However when this "nicely readable" code is called by a visitor, page size unnecessarily increases because of the redundant "spaces" and "line breaks" in the source code which have no useful purpose regarding the page output but is there just for making the source code more readable to the developer.

This hack removes these unnecessary spaces and line breaks from your vbulletin templates AT THE MOMENT they are displayed (in realtime). It does NOT touch your original source code so it is still readable to you when you want to edit it in your admin CP. But it compress the output when they are sent to user's browser.

Removal of these unnecessary characters makes sure:
a) Page output shrinks in all vb pages
b) Thus page loads faster by all visitors
c) You save bandwidth.

Since the removed characters are unnecessary characters, display of your page does NOT change. Please see FAQ below for more info.

This hack is 100% compatible with Teck's Microstat Hack and my Advanced Templates: Dynamic Templates Changing according to different conditions hack and WebTemplates 2.x: VB Integrated Content Management System . It is a very easy to install add (just a few lines in 1 step) yet effective.

I appreciate if you can click INSTALL button, if you use the hack. Thank you. :glasses:

[SmEdD]

put nowrap in the <td> area and drop the nbsp;'s

[matthew tucker]

No that's the OPPOSITE of what I want to do. I WANT the buttons to always wrap ... <td nowrap> forces no wrapping for the cell.

[SmEdD]

sorry didn't read you post completely

and this is a wild guess but maybe try adding hspace="#" in your image tags.

[Logician]

Today at 05:27 AM matthew tucker said this in Post #72
No that's the OPPOSITE of what I want to do. I WANT the buttons to always wrap ... <td nowrap> forces no wrapping for the cell.

When I put your source code in DreamWeaver then open in a browser, your images wraps at the end of table row just like you want and this applies to all source codes you quoted above.

Maybe you can point me to the page where you are experiencing the problem so that I can see it myself.

[d3nnis]

i got a problem...

please see my forum :

http://forums.keeptouch.net/forumdis...?s=&forumid=19

Those page numbers are joining together... how to leave this alone?

[d3nnis]

Originally Posted by d3nnis

i got a problem...

please see my forum :

http://forums.keeptouch.net/forumdis...?s=&forumid=19

Those page numbers are joining together... how to leave this alone?

found my own solution.. at template -> forumdisplay_multipagenav_pagenumber

add a &nbsp; instead of space

[Erwin]

I uninstalled this hack in the end at my private forums, basically because some members using IE for some reason got really wide threads. Don't ask me why.

[d3nnis]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I uninstalled this hack in the end at my private forums, basically because some members using IE for some reason got really wide threads. Don't ask me why.

yeah i am thinking of uninstalling it... i bascially have to find those affected templates and add in &nbsp; not worth... just to save that few percent of space and bandwidth

[Dan_UPC]

Another problem seems to be that if a template contains " " ie. a space, it is deleted but if the template contains " &nbsp;" then it gets displayed as " &nbsp;" ie. 2 spaces. The script doesn't strip the extra space.

[NightWalk8r]

great hack

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