iEdit Optimization Wizard Readme
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iEdit Optimization Wizard will help you reduce bandwidth and CPU utilization
in your web server. To accomplish this, iEdit will:

* Reformat document to strip unnecesary data like indents, multiple spaces,
  multiple carriage returns, etc.
* Remove -when possible- debug tags like <iRem>, <iAuthor>,
  <iHeapDump>, etc. Optimization Wizard will also strip unused (commented)
  text and code.

Once a document is optimized, it will be smaller and -hopefully- have some
tags removed and, thus, it will require less CPU time and bandwidth.
Optimization Wizard reformats documents so -once processed- they will
produce a small and compact block of HTML.

Optimization Wizard can be used on both iHTML and standard HTML documents.


Standard Optimization
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Standard Optimization will:

* Completely remove indentation
* Remove debug tags (iAuthor, iBeep, iHeapDump, etc.)
* Remove commented (with iRem and iRemBock) iHTML code
* Remove multiple consecutive spaces or tabs (leave only one space)
* Replace CR+LF by LF
* Remove LF before iHTML tags (to produce a better formatted output)
* Remove existing and resulting empty lines

iEdit version 3.1 Standard Optimization is equivalent to version 3.0
Advanced Optimization.


Advanced Optimization
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Advanced Optimization will perform a Standard Optimization and will
also remove quotes around some tag argument values (i.e. boder="0"
becomes border=0). This will result in 4 or 5% more "compression".
If you want to avoid this behavior in a particular sentence, use a space
between the equal sign and the value (boder= "0") to tell iEdit not to
remove _that_ quotes.
Notes: Advanced Optimization is known to break some iHTML and JavaScript
code, so it should be used carefully or only on standard HTML documents.


Known Issues
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Optimization process consists of producing output that is both smaller
than and equivalent to the input. In occasions, the resulting document
will be somehow non-equivalent to the original and may cause iHTML
errors or HTML format to become corrupted. In this case you can:

* Try to use a more standard HTML format in your documents.
* Try Standard Optimization instead of Advanced.
* Desist, and use the original (not optimized) document.


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