Posted by Nick Theodorakis on 03/24/06 15:47
Travis Newbury wrote:
> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>> A pity that MSIE plays by totally different rules.
>
> This is only true if you assume someone else's rules are the right
> ones. At the time Desktops were dominated by Microsoft. The makers of
> the "rules" happened to be on *nix.
>
> Plus look at the bandwidth microsoft is saving the world elmininating
> that one character. If every HTML page being called world wide was now
> HTM the savings would be huge!
>
[...]
If that's the real reason you'd save even more bandwidth by configuring
the server to serve html pages without any extension at all.
Of course, that savings would be trivial compared to that which could be
had if everyone optimized image sizes and used cleaner markup.
(and yes, I know you were joking)
Nick
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