Re: The Battle of the Browsers

In article <0001HW.C197A7A200111074B019F94F@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:26:39 -0600, dorayme wrote
> (in article
<doraymeRidThis-8B5461.14263903122006@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
 
> > I mean it is time soon, old chap, to be studying some HTML, some 
> > CSS, to download TextWrangler and so on...
> > 
> > Without the tables (I am not criticizing you here), you could 
> > reduce this much much further.
> > 
> > Even with tables but without the Freeway 4 Pro 4.3.1 generator, 
> > being rid of stuff like:
> > 
> > <tr class="f-sp">
> >          <td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" width=50 height=1 
> > alt="" style="float:left"></td>
> >          <td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" width=192 height=1 
> > alt="" style="float:left"></td>
....
> > 
> > you could be getting leaner and meaner! 
> > 
> > You would do all this spacing in css. (simply put, you would 
> > specify margins and padding to the cells and not need pictures of 
> > nothing to go in between pictures of something!)
> > 
> > You would hive off the css in the head to a separate linked file 
> > reducing the html yet further and it goes on and on...
> 
> The total size of the site is 6.7 MB. The total size of the code for the
main 
> page with the thumbnails and the 62 pages with the "toenails" is .2 MB.
The 
> size of the images, both for the thumbnails and toenails collectively
comes 
> to 6.5 MB. If my arithmetic is correct this means that the code occupies

> about 3% of the site. Given that, saving some space taken by the code
hardly 
> seems a way to make any consequential difference in the overhead of the
site.
> 
> Am I missing something?

Perhaps the satisfaction of having no less and no more code than 
is needed? 

Of not unnecessarily using up the world's energy. 

Of the multiplication factor of that 3% calculated from the 
number of "first" (uncached) hits to your site... 

That is enough to be chewing on for now. Your site is fine, don't 
worry too much. Just some things to consider in the future.

-- 
dorayme