Andrei's Google Talk

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 08/07/2010 01:40 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> What's odd about how pointlessly verbose it is, is it was designed in
> the era of modems. You'd think that tightening up the syntax would be a
> priority.

Do you really think those <p> tags and <a href> tags were choking the 
14.4 modems of the time? When HTML was first designed, it was a simple 
markup language.

The real bandwidth killers were when people put pictures (*gasp*) in 
their HTML pages. It got really annoying when people decided to use 
image maps for navigation, which meant you couldn't browse with pictures 
turned off.

Ah, good times.