[9723] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Conditional HTML w/ (was: Microsoft IE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Sobiloff)
Mon Jan 29 14:53:17 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:47:20 -0500
To: www-talk@w3.org
From: bsobilof@inet.ed.gov (Blake Sobiloff)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
At 1:12 PM 1/29/96, M. Hedlund wrote:
[Description of <INSERT> structure]
>Advantages:
[...]
>* Doesn't stuff all possible variants into one document (avoids filesize
> bloat).
I've heard a lot of people mention filesize bloat as a (potential) problem,
but I wonder how much of a problem it really is. At least with the files I
ride herd over, I doubt that many would more than double in size -- but
then again, I'm pretty conservative with my document features, too. Given
the highly compressable nature of HTML text, as opposed to pre-compressed
graphics, this increase in size would likely be minimized by modem
compression, too.
I'm more worried about having still more links that will invariably break
than about file bloat, I guess. Also, how am I going to test each of the
different structures -- keep copies of the top five browsers for each
platform handy? Yuck! (Maybe my worry is just an artifact of the current
(lack of) automated / advanced tools?)
[...]
>Disadvantages:
>
>* Requires multiple GETs (possibly a good number of them).
[...]
This seems like a much more significant problem, especially given the
slow-start nature of TCP connections, plus the additional overhead with
older server architectures (threads vs. forks).
IMHO...
--
Blake Sobiloff <bsobilof@inet.ed.gov>
Internet Systems Analyst/Webmaster (speaking only for myself)
Decision Systems Technologies, Inc. <http://inet.ed.gov/~bsobilof/>
Greenbelt, MD 20770 USA C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
