Andrei's Google Talk

[Walter Bright]

Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> 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.

A typical HTML source file is about double the size it needs to be if HTML were 
designed better. A lot of sites did work hard to try to shrink their HTML pages 
so they'd load faster.


> 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.

Yeah, I remember sitting and waiting a lot. Don't miss that.