HTML tagging error ettiquette

[Peter Murray]

--On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 11:35 AM -0700 "Dean C. Rowan" <wpl at quick.net>
wrote: 
> I've worked 
> with Fusion and it generates triple the HTML you'd expect to find.  Yes,

> we're talking small potatoes here, but isn't that three times the bytes,

> more or less, that need to be delivered each time the site is read?  
> And three times the storage required at the host?

It is not only the physical size of the file, but the increase in the
tagging.  With each new tag the browser rendering engine must store new
information about how the page is designed and go through more information
when it actually goes to draw the page.  In the original question, the
browser might be smart enough to combine the two FONT tags, but likely
not.


Peter
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