Can I gzip JavaScript and CSS files in Django?
Thanks everyone. 
It seems that the GzipMiddleware in Django DOES compress CSS and JS. 
I was using Google's Page Speed plugin for Firebug to profile my page and it seems that it was generating reports based on old copies (non-gzipped versions) of the CSSs and JSs in my local cache. These copies were there from the time before I enabled the Gzip middleware. I flushed the cache and it seems that the reports showed different results altogether.
I tried profiling my web application and one of the bottlenecks reported was the lack of gzip compression. I proceeded to install the gzip middleware in Django and got a bit of a boost but a new report shows that it is only gzipping the HTML files i.e. any content processed by Django. Is there a way I could kludge/hack/force/make the middleware gzip my CSS and my JS as well? 
Could someone please answer my questions below. I've gotten a little lost with this.

I might have gotten it wrong but
people do gzip the CSS and the JS,
don't they?
Does Django not compress
JS and CSS for some browser
compatibility issues? 
Is compressing
and minifying the same thing?

Thanks.