- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:32:54 +0000
- To: CSS Style <www-style@w3.org>
On 22 Jan 2008, at 14:49, Dmitry Turin wrote: >>>>> should download css before parsing html. > DD> But CSS is supposed to be an optional presentational layer. The > DD> operative word should be "may" not "should". > P.S. > 'optional' theoretically or practically ? Practically. > I know people, > who browse without downloading pictures (e.g. I), > but i know nobody, who without css. I have turned CSS off from time to time. It can make some documents much more readable. > As was mentioned, one css-file per hundreds other files of site > is less one persent of traffic, so this is not actual for robots. And as was mentioned, downloading the file is not the source of complexity. >>> DD> Lynx is a browser. Lynx does not support JavaScript. >>> It cover very little part of population. >>> To my mind, it's anachronism. > DD> To my mind it is a small, fast, useful tool. > > Size of program is not important in epoch of DVD, BluRay, etc. It is important in the epoch of palmtops and GRPS network connections that are charged by the megabyte. > It's not important, how much time of rendering is less constants > of human perception (1 sec): 0.05 sec or 0.5 sec > (comparing browsers in identical conditions, i.e. for textual > framework). > And without pictures, it's not useful - observe today's inet. Rubbish. There might be a lot of image dependent content on the web, but there is vast amounts that is perfectly understandable with just text (the majority of the BBC website springs to mind). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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