Optimization of html automatically generated by wysiwyg programs

Automatically generated HTML, as produced by WYSIWYG programs, typically contains much repetitive and unnecessary markup. This paper identifies aspects of such HTML that may be altered while leaving 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-code removal. 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. Categories and Subject Descriptors E.4 [CODING AND INFORMATION THEORY]: Data compaction and compression; H.3.5 [INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL]: Online Information Services-Web-based services; H.5.4 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]: Hypertext/Hypermedia; D.3.4 [PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES]: Processors--Optimization, Parsing General Terms Performance, Algorithms Keyw...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Jacqueline Spiesser, Les Kitchen
• Keywords: Interfaces And Presentation, Internet Technology, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL, Techniques Include Attribute, WWW 2004