Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 08/07/2010 01:40 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
What's odd about how pointlessly verbose it is, is it was designed in
the era of modems. You'd think that tightening up the syntax would be a
priority.
Do you really think those <p> tags and <a href> tags were choking the
14.4 modems of the time? When HTML was first designed, it was a simple
markup language.
A typical HTML source file is about double the size it needs to be if HTML were
designed better. A lot of sites did work hard to try to shrink their HTML pages
so they'd load faster.
The real bandwidth killers were when people put pictures (*gasp*) in
their HTML pages. It got really annoying when people decided to use
image maps for navigation, which meant you couldn't browse with pictures
turned off.
Yeah, I remember sitting and waiting a lot. Don't miss that.
