- From: Roger Johansson <roger@456bereastreet.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:39:34 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 22 apr 2007, at 05.43, Matthew Raymond wrote: >> I don't think that bandwidth is that precious to Google. Their >> homepage >> could be made both smaller and standards-compliant: >> http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/google/ >> but apparently Google doesn't care about either of those things. > > While the pages appear nearly identical on the surface, the Google > page has an additional popup menu when you click "more >>", plus > scripting related to that menu. I don't remember that popup menu being there when I made the standards-compliant version. More info on that little experiment of mine: <http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/google_valid_and_strict/> > Furthermore, the markup of > the two pages is so different that it's difficult to tell if they both > actually do the same thing. They did in August 2006. > So at best you could say that the could do MORE optimization and not > that they weren't trying to optimize in the first place. And my example could also be further optimised. But this is getting a bit off-topic, I think ;-). /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/
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