Formatting of dynamically generated HTML - does no one care?

Question

I have very little experience in web development, so this may be a very basic question.

It\'s just, from the limited experience I do have (

Answer 1

Well if you make an extra pass over the file to beautify it before sending it to the user you will:

1. Increase the file size (slower to download), and so give your users the feeling that your site is "lagging" and slow (which it is)

2. put extra overhead on your server, possibly maxing it out and slowing down even more

Besides helping one or two guys who read the source code (which can be automatically beautified in most editors), what do you hope to accomplish with this to make it worth it?