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Re: Which HTML to use?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:56:09 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Constantine Hannaher writes:
The administrators at LUGNET are making changes here and there and normally
I like that but something about the enlarged "Subject:" line in the web view
of each post has bugged me. Is it really necessary to do this by a font size
of -1, two BIG tags and a B tag? My overall point is, why stick with HTML
3.2? Certainly a top-to-bottom redesign in XHTML 1.x and CSS may be a
daunting prospect, but incremental changes which reinforce old coding
practices are the wrong direction (er, in my opinion).

Constantine

I'll agree.  I will also add that with CSS in use, the server speed will
become much faster since the cgi program won't have to generate all the long
code in HTML, just a short tag defining the class.  Let the CSS do all the rest.

Jeremy



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(...) If by "much faster" you mean a ten-millionth of a second quicker per page display, then you're correct. :-) (...) Actually, the server doesn't have to generate the HTML on a tag-by-tag basis...it's more efficient than that. The difference in (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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The administrators at LUGNET are making changes here and there and normally I like that but something about the enlarged "Subject:" line in the web view of each post has bugged me. Is it really necessary to do this by a font size of -1, two BIG tags (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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