Optimization of html automatically generated by wysiwyg programs

  • Authors:
  • Jacqueline Spiesser;Les Kitchen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria, Australia;University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Automatically generated HTML, as produced by WYSIWYG programs, typically contains much repetitive and unnecessary markup. Thispaper identifies aspects of such HTML that may be altered whileleaving a semantically equivalent document, and proposes techniques to achieve optimizing modifications. These techniques include attribute re-arrangement via dynamic programming, the use of style classes, and dead-coderemoval. These techniques produce documents as small as 33% of original size. The size decreases obtained are still significant when the techniques are used in combination with conventional text-based compression.