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    Re: Which HTML to use? —Jeremy Scott
   (...) 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 (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Which HTML to use? Todd Lehman
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Which HTML to use? —Constantine Hannaher
   (...) Thanks for the quick reply. If a less legacy-burdened coding for LUGNET is a goal, then that's ok by me. But. Old browsers is not the hang-up, as far as I can tell. (Especially since some really old browsers, like IE2 just to take a random (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Which HTML to use? —William R. Ward
   (...) OK I moved this part of the thread there... Why not just use <h1 class="postheaders">foo</h1> instead? I'm not a CSS expert but that's how I would have done it... --Bill. (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.publish.html)
   
        Re: Which HTML to use? —Constantine Hannaher
   (...) Because that way every instance of a first-level heading that needed the desired effect would have to include the class attribute. When hand-coding, especially, it's a waste, and the coder has to remember how to achieve the effect. By (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.publish.html)
 

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