If you viewed the source of google and their css files you will see that they even remove the whitespace and rename javascript variables to be shorter.
I would also argue that most bandwidth usage is not on text (html, css, xml or whatever). But most bandwidth is used for images, archives, video and audio. JPEG, GZ, DIVX, MP3 are all efficient.
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You can compress html pages.. Try reading about the apache module mod_deflate. Gzip works fine.h tml
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.
If you viewed the source of google and their css files you will see that they even remove the whitespace and rename javascript variables to be shorter.
I would also argue that most bandwidth usage is not on text (html, css, xml or whatever). But most bandwidth is used for images, archives, video and audio. JPEG, GZ, DIVX, MP3 are all efficient.