- From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 11:32:36 +0000
- To: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>
- cc: Murray Macdonald <murray@mha.ca>, "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Hi, > > To do so at the expense of your user's experience is a very poor > > and selfish design philosophy. > > I think you overstate your case. Hitting the server for another > chunk of data is not that expensive. It happens all the time for > images, CSS files, etc. Pity the poor users. The latency is awful from a user's perspective. Yes, it already happens with images, but look what was required; the width and height attributes so a UA could display the HTML whilst it waited for the image. There's a big hit on many sites where another retrieval is required for an external CSS file and there isn't the `width/height' kludge around that. Ralph.
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