- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:37:12 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, 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. Persistent connections and caching tilt the balance the other way since you are reduced to only one extra GET RTT and get object re-use of the stylsheet from then on. Putting it into each document individually results in paying the byte overhead on *every* document (a lose for more than a very small number documents over a single GET RTT) and loses the most important characteristic of stylesheets - their re-use in many documents. -- Jerry
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