OK, so my question is whether band-width is really significantly affected by white-space usage or not? So, do people styling really big sites put their commands across the page to save white-space and returns, or do they put each command down the page the way Dreamweaver styles it for command readability? Is whitespace still an issue today, or was it only in the bandwidth challenged days of a few years back that this was an issue?
I'd go with readability first as my sites are yet to be *big* and most hosting plans are generous in offering huge amount of month transfer. However they are big sites who reduce bandwidth usage by negating white-spaces in the files and by reducing the number of http requests sent by billions of users.