Over at the Web Standards Group list, we've been having a bit of fun. Thought I'd share it here, as it may well be of interest to members of this list.
As you may have noticed, the current Google Search page is pretty old-skool in its markup: lots of validation errors (it doesn't even have a DOCTYPE), and those layout tables and FONT tags just take you back to the 90s. I've seen comments from Google in recent times that this is mainly for bandwidth reasons. After this had been tossed around on the list a bit, I decided to throw together a version which is a bit more 21st century. Here's the "original" page I used for reference (because the Google Search page takes many different forms, depending on your location, the presence of Google Desktop, being logged in, etc): http://xomerang.com/testpages/google/invalidGoogle.html It weighs in at... 2,654 bytes. Here's the reworked version. It's valid HTML 4.01 Strict, all CSS layout. Note the source order has been changed to something that I think would work better without CSS: http://xomerang.com/testpages/google/validGoogle.html It weighs in at 1,908 bytes, plus a linked CSS file which is 636 bytes, for a total of... 2,544 bytes. And, since an extra request for the linked stylesheet could be an issue, and if you didn't care about styling other pages, here's a version with the CSS in the head: http://xomerang.com/testpages/google/validGoogleCSSinHead.html It weighs in at... 2,514 bytes. My blog entry (which pretty much just repeats the above) is here: http://tbp.xomerang.com/2005/12/10/a-valid-google-search-page/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
