[Logician]

Today at 01:44 AM Sebastian said this in Post #49
you also have to note that 1byte is extremely small, 1,000 bytes is just about 1KB.

there really isn't much you'll be saving, as even a user on 56k would probably not even noticed a difference in 5,000 bytes.

I don't agree. If your gain is 5%, this means your speed is also 5% and it is not that trivial considering the fact that it applies to ALL vb pages, not only 1 page.

Besides if you are on a server which you are paying according to your bandwidth consumption (on most dedicated it is so) and you have a high traffic, even %1 or %2 less consumption can make a difference when it comes to paying your server bills especially in the long term.

But if you have a small site eating 2 GB. per month and your host allows you to spend 30 GB. per month, well you may not care about this hack or any other bandwidth related issues which is understandable.

you might save a dollar or two by doing this, but a lot of page source viewers are gonna be like "what a crappy coder"

Oh just the contrary! A professional checking your source code will understand the logic behind instantly and such a comment will come from only a newbie.

As a matter of fact when I check source code of pages, I blame the developer if I notice a lot of inlined lines in the HTML code. It shows that dev. is either unaware of the results of these lines or don't care.

So please label the correct person as "the crappy coder". :glasses: