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Some people like comments. I, for one, find them interesting. Others may be interested in how PerlMonks has the HTML structured, and they don't feel like running it though a beautifier every time. After all, we want to encourage learning, and not push away those who are curious, right?

Sure, it would save bandwidth. I don't know how much the server costs for PM, but if it's one of those "unlimited" plans, then it would be rather useless. Again, we seem to have gotten along just fine with how it is now, so there is no real reason for change.
I understand that some users have bandwidth restrictions on their end, so perhaps it could be enabled as a setting. That would probably be the best idea.

~Thomas~
confess( "I offer no guarantees on my code." );

In reply to Re: PM CSS and markup optimizations by thomas895
in thread PM CSS and markup optimizations by kimmel

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