This module is a django conversion of CheckoutableTemplates Zope package: http://zope.org/Members/peterbe/CheckoutableTemplates
The slimmer is taken directly from the Zope package, with django middleware and a view decorator added.
The slimming process takes html and removes whitespace, optimizes inline css, removes oneline comments. The end result can be a significant file size reduction even after the page is served with gzip compression.
Installation
sudo easy_install django-slimmer
Install middleware
'slimmer.middleware.CompressHtmlMiddleware',
Or you can use a view decorator to compress specific views
from slimmer.decorator import compress_html @compress_html def browse(request): context = RequestContext(request,{}) return render_to_response('browse.html',context)
Using the slimmer directly
from slimmer import slimmer compressed = slimmer.xhtml_slimmer(html)