now days we calculate every byte i disagree with you about your attitude. that you don't have to calculate and think about site weight look at yahoo homepage code, for example: they don't write ', all css classes are one to two letters there is a war for clients(costumers), and u have have to make the site fast as possible
On 12/14/05, Christian Heilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > but cant i use the <body> tag as my container? > > I doubt that every user agent out there allows you to set a width to > body. I could be wrong though. However, you lose another element you > can use for borders and background that way. Faux columns[1] is a > great trick to use with a centered container element. > > > another question: doesnt the divs render them self much more faster? > dont > > they render to the stage/page quicker? > > a table tag need to be close before he shows him sels. same as div. > > doesnt it? > > Could be. Generally tables are not good to use for layout[2] and are > more complex constructs than DIVs, therefore DIVS might be faster (a > user agent has to recalculate the width of each cell, check if there > is a colspan or a rowspan, check if the element is a TD or a TH to > apply the different browser specific styles, add the borders and and > and). > > The whole idea about CSS layout is that the grid is not fixed and you > don't build a visual construct but style a sematically logical HTML > structure. This means that an element designated "nav" could be left, > right, top or bottom, depending on the need of the user and the > ability of the user agent. > > Rendering speed is quite a moot point these days, if you keep your > structure logical and don't add dozens of elements for visual trickery > then the page will render quickly. > > I can make a table that renders really fast or create a DIV with a > 12mb background image that will take ages to render, there is really > no competition. > > [1] Faux Columns: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ > [2] Why tables for layout is stupid http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/ > > > -- > Chris Heilmann > Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com > Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ > Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
