On 11/29/2011 1:16 AM, Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
Well, maybe, but I know that the developer who worked on the WAP and I-mode
interfaces for the web forum software I developed was *extremely* concerned
about the fact that he paid by like the kilobyte.
He also used it (after developing it) quite a bit, and my understanding was that
it was fairly lightweight.
It didn't have avatars (which I think are cruft; I don't use them on forums),
signatures (also cruft, in emails and newsgroups too.) I think it (but I'm not
sure, I didn't have a phone at the time) automatically stripped second-level
quotes too, which NNTP probably wouldn't do.
Is NNTP even gzipped? I expect it isn't (and can't find any contradiction in a
quick peek at the RFCs), which would mean it's definitely not impossible that
HTML could win. But, I haven't really read those RFCs, so I could be wrong.
I don't know if NNTP is compressed or not. But consider that NNTP was developed
in the days of 110 baud data transmission (that's 11 characters per second).
