Compression of HTML template output

It would be nice to to have a setting to produce compressed ouput for HTML templates, by removing all unneeded indentations from the output.

For instance this template:

<div>
    @if(true)
        <span>Hello</span>
    @endif
</div>

Currently produces this output:

<div>
    
        <span>Hello</span>
    
</div>

With compression on, the output would be this instead:

<div><span>Hello</span></div>

This could save quite a few bytes that need to be sent to each client, plus reduces the server resources needed for rendering, if done in the template compiler.

It’s a tricky feature and things could go wrong, so it should be optional. Also, pre and code tags should be left as is and it would be a good idea to allow the user to specify css classes that indicate no compression.

[re-thc]

Please include css and/or js compression if possible when you do the HTML compression. If it’s used for e.g. email templates, the assets are likely embedded.

[MarkusAmshove]

Yes, I checked out the master branch and ran my templates against the trimming and the output was as I expected it to be 😃