Posted by Brendan Gillatt on 10/09/07 15:13

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Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:53:39 -0700, Onideus Mad Hatter
> <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:35:27 +0100, Brendan Gillatt
>> <brendanREMOVETHIS@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>> *snicker*
>>>>
>>>> You retard! That won't even work on IE 5 on teh Mac!
>>> And how does that have a higher percentage of users than those which
>>> cannot use flash?
>> Um, retard, Flash works just peachy on IE 5 on teh Mac...maybe not
>> Flash 9, but you can go as low as Flash 4...actually maybe even lower,
>> but I haven't personally tested it so I won't say for certain. Unlike
>> you, I don't run the fuck at the mouth about shit I don't know about.
>>
>> Since the percentage of IE5 Mac users who can view your rendition
>> is...ZERO...obviously the Flash method is superior. Again though, yer
>> not so good with the numbers, what with how you think users are
>> somehow magically spacing their access apart on yer server to achieve
>> a nice median hit rate.
>>
>>>> Not to mention:
>>>> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/URAMORON.swf
>>>>
>>>> LOL, you can achieve the same effect in Flash with NO HTML or CSS code
>>>> and it's ONLY 280 bytes...that's a nearly FORTY PERCENT reduction in
>>>> size from yer idiot bloat code!
>>> So, sorry - I did leave the code un-optimised. By changing the names to
>>> single characters and removing whitespace I'd probalby get close
>> This is the part where you won't actually do it because you know
>> you're full of shit. Removing all the white space in "your" code (and
>> by "your" I mean the guy you ripped it off of) wouldn't really have
>> any significant impact at all on the overall size.
>
> Just to prove how stupid you are, I went ahead and removed all the
> white space from "your" code. I also removed just about every
> possible bit of extraneous code and this is the best that can be
> achieved:
> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/protal.html
>
> 654 Bytes, still about twice the size of mine

With probably at least 200 times more operating systems/browsers that
can view the text in a readable way.

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http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk
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