Re: Re[2]: Why style sheets

Won't this "HTTP setup cost" issue become moot when HTTP 1.1 is more widely deployed?

 Paul Prescod

Eric Holstege wrote:
> 
> I think the main cost in downloading a (textual) page is generally the TCP
> connection setup and the round-trip GET request for the HTTP transaction, not
> the downloading time. Unless it is cached, an external style sheet requires a
> second HTTP transaction, and hence a second TCP connection setup, whereas
> putting style info into the documents just results in a few hundred extra bytes
> download in an otherwise already-established TCP connection. I think that winds
> up being generally faster.

Received on Monday, 20 January 1997 14:50:09 UTC