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The pages seem pretty heavy at the best of times - they like to fill each webpage which may or may not be a good thing. (Smaller amounts and going from page to page seems to me to make it more encouraging for people to read.)I don't suppose the gaps adds to the slowness.(?)
I looked to see the secret of their option of single and double columns and the source shows this madly gappy page. I've noticed this before there - and on quite a few sites - but never anything quite like this. Anyone know the philosophy behind it, please?
[edited by: BlobFisk at 9:02 am (utc) on July 26, 2005]
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it's relatively clean code (few validation errors) and that is probably more important.
Nearly 50% wasted whitespace in a single page is exceptional....
length? read [the url in question]
== 120260
length? trim/lines read [the url in question]
== 62659
....but that is likely to be compressed on many of its voyages and cache stopovers, so the total throughput may not be affected greatly.
They may be being charged double for HTML served by their ISP, but that's also a relatively small percentage of their total bandwidth -- think of the bandwidth for images.
Still, that could add up to a tidy small sum over a year -- why not tell them, and ask for 50% of the saving in cash?
I really took it to be some ruse.
It's almost unbelievable that an organisation that concentrates so much on the aesthetics of layout should be so unaware of what's behind the scenes. Like a restaurateur who doesn't know the kitchen's active with cockroaches. (Well, in a way.)
Cheers, gentlemen.
