HTML Shrinker

Version History

 

Version 2.60 (December 2002):

All Versions:

• Bug fixed: Flashing and program freezing occured when some special folders inside the "My Documents" folder were selected.
• Several script shrinking problems and other bugs were removed
• Menu icons added

Pro Version only:

• Up to 50% better shrinking of CSS code
• Support for VBS files
• Support for VBS and CSS code on the clipboard
• HTML Comments are removed from XML files
• New Rules:
  • Seven new rules for removing empty tags. These rules are activated by default.
  • New "Ignore ASP code" rule
• New Options:
  • Check box in the Options dialog for ignoring all "_vti_" folders produced by Frontpage when using Shrink All
  • "TCL Double Spaces" shrink option was renamed to "Double Spaces in TCL and VBScript"
• Ctl + T key shortcut for "Restore All"
• Bug Fixes:
  • For the Ignore-type rule
  • For the arrow up and down buttons in the Options dialog
  • "Shrink to Folder" feature didn't work correctly with sub folders in some cases.
  • Correct "var declarations" removal in scripts
  • The -f command line option lets you specify a path without a trailing \ now

Commercial Pro Version only:

• Features for flexibly shrinking different web sites:
  • Features for opening and saving all settings of the Options dialog from/to a HSO file. This allows you to create different sets of shrinking options for different web sites.
  • The "Edit /Add Site" dailogs additionally lets you specify a backup folder, a shrink folder and a HSO file for each site. When choosing a site from the Sites menu they are automatically set.
  • Command line switch for opening a HSO file.

 

 

Version 2.50 (February 2002):

General:

• Shrinking is performed ca. 10% faster, because the shrinking code was further optimized
• Shrinking of spaces and quotes has been improved
• New "Empty Lines" shrinking option in the Options dialog
• Shrinking Presets were added to the Options dialog
• Script shrinking problems fixed
• Textarea tags are respected and their content is not shrunken anymore
• New tab-style Options dialog
• The Remove options were moved from the main window to the Rules tab of the Options dialog
• ?-buttons have been placed on all dialogs for displaying the appropriate help file
• The size of the currently selected file is displayed as a tool tip
• The text box that displays the shrinking results doesn't have the 32K limit anymore
• The file attributes readonly, hidden and system are automatically removed from files before shrinking to avoid problems
• The Restore warning message is only shown once and not everytime when you use "Restore"

Pro Version:

• Rules feature for defining your own shrinking rules and extending the capabilities of HTML Shrinker
• The previous Remove options can now be edited in the Rules tab of the Options dialog
• Several useful rules are already included with HTML Shrinker Pro e.g. for removing meta tags, links, forms, asp code, all tags
• New Shrinking Options: For making html files produced with MS Office smaller as well as for removing Dreamweaver comments, unnecessary closing tags, unecessary meta tags, doctype tags, var Declarations etc.
• More control over what is removed from scripts and which comments are removed or not
• New 'Analyze All' command for analyzing all files in all sub folders
• 'Analyze' will now analyze all selected files and not just one file.
• XSL file format supported
• The Shrink All warning message is only shown once and not everytime when you use "Shrink All"
• The time that was neeeded to shrink each file is now displayed
• Several bugs fixed: Command Line feature works under Windows 2000 now; When dragging files or folders from the Explorer to HTML Shrinker the Shrink dialog is now displayed only once (and not for each file like before); Problems that occured when backing up/shrinking/restoring to/from a different folder was fixed

 

Version 2.01c (April 2001):

General:

• Window resizing problem fixed
• File names of shrunken files aren't converted to lower case anymore
• Quote removal problem in doctype tags fixed
• Error message doesn't appear anmyore if you shrink the 300th file in the file box
• File processing problems (e.g. if the html syntax isn't correct) don't lead to a crash anymore

Pro Version:

• XHTML files are supported
• Problem with empty tag attributes solved

 

Version 2.01 (March 2001):

General:

• The behavior of the folder box has been improved. You only need to click a folder once to select it. Previously you had to double click it.
• Improved removal of unnecessary spaces. As an effect a display problem in Internet Explorer (a bug ???) is fixed.
• "Suppress the Backup Dialogs" check box in Options dialog was added for defining an automatic shrinking and restoring option
• Smaller script shrinking bugs fixed
• Tabs removal problem fixed
• Main window is resizable
• Right clicking the file box will display the File menu as a context menu
  

Light Version:

• The Link Request message appears only once and never again now
• The Pro Version reminder doesn't appears that often anymore

Pro Version:

• Greatly improved removal of unnecessary spaces. As a consequence the "Perform x shrinking passes ..." option isn't needed anymore.
• Improved shrinking of end of lines
• Improved shrinking of VBscript and ASP files
• Shrinking of TCL scripts added
• Analyze command for getting detailed information about which elements are removed from a certain file
• Dragging and dropping files or folders from the Explorer will trigger the Shrink command
• New "Sacrifice Shrinking Gain for Speed" check box in the Options dialog. If activated HTML Shrinker Pro should work 20% faster in average, but produce 1-2% larger files.
• Using 'Shrink All' on the c:\ root folder is prohibited to avoid problems. You have to select a sub folder instead.
• INC was added to the default file types that are processed by HTML Shrinker Pro
• "Shrink to the following folder" is working correctly now.
• Right clicking the folder box will display the Sites menu as a context menu
• Message about the ASP Default Language will pop up only one time when starting HTML Shrinker
• Bug fixed that occured when shrinking files from the command line
• New command line switch -i for displaying the Backup dialog before shrinking files

 

Version 2.0 (January 2001):

General:

• Improved shrinking of Javascript and PHP scripts
• Server Side Includes (SSI) problem fixed. They aren't removed anymore.
• Quotes aren't removed within SSIs anymore
• Dreamweaver comments aren't removed anymore
• Frontpage comments aren't removed unless you select it in the Options dialog
• PageMill's NoEdit tags aren't removed anymore
• The language attribute of the script tag is evaluated now
• Empty string bug removed
• EOLs aren't removed within PRE tags anymore
• Script and style end tags are removed now when activating the appropriate options on the main window
• No crash when text box is full or file is 0 byte large
  
• Larger dialog
• New Backup dialog appears before shrinking
• New Overwrite dialog
• New 'Show Source' command
• New 'Edit' menu for quickly selecting many files
• ESC key for interrupting the shrinking process
• You can use the Back key to jump to the next highest folder
• Grey text box for entering the folder path manually
• New frame for selecting file types in the Options dialog
• Hidden files and system files are displayed now
• New installation setup

Pro Version:

• Shrinking of WML (wap), WMLS (wap script) and PL (perl) files and improved shrinking of ASP and and XML files
• Up to 50% better shrinking than the Light Version because of new shrinking options: Removement of unnecessary font tags, font face names, empty tag attributes, end of paragraphs and end of list items, replacement of large tags and characters with smaller ones
• Shrinks up to twice as fast as the Light Version, especially when shrinking dozens of pages
• Command line options for running HTML Shrinker e.g. from a script
• You can use HTML Shrinker directly from the Explorer by right clicking on folders or html files
• 'Shrink All' command for shrinking all files in the current folder and its sub folders
• 'Shrink Clipboard' command for shrinking the text on the clipboard
• 'Simulate Shrinking' command for testing the effectivity of HTML Shrinker
• New Backup options: Backup or Shrink recursively to a destination folder
• 'Restore All' command for undoing all shrinking in the current folder and all sub folders
• 'Remove All Backups' command for deleting all backups in the current folder and all sub folders
• New Option: Performing several shrinking passes per file
• Option on the main window to remove all font tags
• New 'Sites' menu for defining the root folders of your web sites and quickly jumping to them

 

Version 1.07 (5th February 2000):

• Server Side Includes (SSI) are left untouched
• Visual SourceSafe comments aren't removed anymore
• Asp, php and java tags are supported now
• Improved shrinking of scripts and java tags
• The following file types are now displayed and processed by default: htm, html, shmtl, jhtml, xml, cfm, cfml, js, css, asp, php
• New option: Don't create backup file

 

Version 1.05 (14th August 1999):

• Better compression
• New option for shrinking java scripts
• The shift/non breaking spaces option has been removed from the Options dialog, cause it changes the layout of web pages. It is now available from the main windows as "NB Spaces".
• New option for defining the displayed file types in the Options dialog

 

Version 1.03 (23rd July 1999):

• Options dialog for defining your own shrinking options
• No shrinking within <Pre> Tags
• Larger main dialog
• Some smaller improvements and bug fixes.

 

Version 1.01 (3rd July 1999):

• Necessary spaces aren't removed anymore
• "Remove all Images/Scripts/Styles" are deactivated after each session