[WEB4LIB] Re:

[Thomas Dowling]

Tom Keays wrote:
> ...That said, stylesheets often bloat
> up -- especially if you're borrowing an existing stylesheet and
> applying it to a new site -- with tags that are not being applied. Do
> an analysis of your site and see what classes and IDs are actually
> being used and snip out (and set aside in case you need them later).
> Look at all the unclassed tags (p, span, a) and see if there is
> redundancy that can be snipped out.
> 
>

All true, of course.  But consider it in this context: squeezing out all 
the redundancies, unneeded properties, and even whitespace in a 
stylesheet may save you a few kilobytes.  Careless choices about JPEG 
compression or palette sizes for GIFs and PNGs can add back several tens 
of kilobytes over several pages, as may server settings that defeat 
browser caching, or using two similar images on different pages instead 
of using the same image in both places.

-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu