18 Oct
2014
18 Oct
'14
10:50 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 05:23:26AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Following is a small sample of styles from some high
profile sites
that refutes your assertion. For every major site you find that does
not size P text either directly or via cascade in relative units,
[...]
Um, I think this is getting way off-topic for this list.
Off-topic or not, there's one thing that I find just too astonishing to
let stand:
In case you haven't noticed,
Google'w home page weighs in at over 1GB if saved as web page complete
in Gecko. About 10% of it is the HTML page. Most of the rest is
insufferably complex CSS and JS.
Surely not. That would imply that in order to use Google via HTTPS, you
would have to download 1GB *each and every time* you visited the site.
(Browsers don't cache https pages.) On my system, that would take about
1.5 hours each time. I'm sure I would have noticed.
10% of 1GB is just over 100 MB, I'm pretty confident that Google's web
page is not that big:
[steve@ando ~]$ wget --user-agent "Firefox 31 (Mozilla compatible)"
--no-check-certificate https://www.google.com
--2014-10-18 21:43:56-- https://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... 74.125.237.179, 74.125.237.180, 74.125.237.176, ...
Connecting to www.google.com|74.125.237.179|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=bURCVMSHDauN8Qflz4FI [following]
--2014-10-18 21:44:00--
https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=bURCVMSHDauN8Qflz4FI
Resolving www.google.com.au... 74.125.237.175, 74.125.237.183, 74.125.237.184, ...
Connecting to www.google.com.au|74.125.237.175|:443... connected.
WARNING: certificate common name `google.com' doesn't match requested host name
`www.google.com.au'.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html?gfe_rd=cr&ei=bURCVMSHDauN8Qflz4FI'
[ <=> ]
64,679 89.7K/s in 0.7s
2014-10-18 21:44:01 (89.7 KB/s) -
`index.html?gfe_rd=cr&ei=bURCVMSHDauN8Qflz4FI' saved [64679]
[steve@ando ~]$ du -h index.html\?gfe_rd\=cr\&ei\=bURCVMSHDauN8Qflz4FI
68K index.html?gfe_rd=cr&ei=bURCVMSHDauN8Qflz4FI
Anyway, can we get back to the topic of making the TDE website do a
better job of selling TDE?
--
Steven