Hmmmm.... No. You're wrong. Seriously, not trying to tick you
off, but you should read this:
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/11/28/performance-research-part-1/
I fully understand and am aware of the separation of content and
style, it's pro's and con's. How the browsers save things is not the
issue, that's a minor point. The issue is with the http requests. It
is not a direct 1 to 1 trade off of bandwidth vs. requests. To say
that it is, is misleading. A 9k style sheet via an http request
versus an additional 9k in your index file is not the same
comparison. And since 50% or more of the US is on "broadband"
anyway... it's a no brainer.
"The conclusion is the same: Reducing the number of HTTP requests has
the biggest impact on reducing response time and is often the easiest
performance improvement to make. In the next article we’ll look at
the impact of caching, and some surprising real-world findings."
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Derrick Peavy
Sales and Web Services
CollegeClassifieds.com
http://www.collegeclassifieds.com
A Service of Universal Advertising, inc.
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On Mar 17, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Howard Fore wrote:
One of the nice things about using style sheets that are external
to your HTML is that modern browsers won't download the CSS file
again if the file hasn't changed. So you save n KB per HTTP
request. Small, but it does add up, especially for a site with a
lot of pages, like a shopping site. As far as solving the user's
problem of the style sheet not coming along with a save, all the
big broswer players have a "save complete" option that will grab
the style sheet.
On 3/16/07, Universal Advertising Derrick Peavy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Honestly, I didn't follow the cfinclude/css thread after the first
post because it was not what I thought it was. However, if it is
even remotely related, I thought the OP might want to know, you can
use CFINCLUDE to deliver your CSS files in the head of your pages.
I do this to reduce the number of http requests and also because it
solves the problem of a user saving the page locally just as well
as using a full qualified path in the head of the page would.
--
Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right
thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing
you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
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