Stephen Cope wrote:
SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Mostly, I've come to object to a website being made up of a gazillion
sources -- it's not uncommon for some web-pages to have a dozen-plus
external servers providing something (ads, stats, trackers, etc.),
which seems just silly. If you want to serve up an ad to me, host
it on your own damn machine.
You'll be happy to know that the homepage of Facebook (the over-valued
poster boy of Web 2.0 mania) has 38 items from two servers, and the
login page has 71 items, mostly Javascript.
The kicker is that there are two login pages, both posting to the same
form, but one doesn't include 69 of these files:
https://login.facebook.com/login.php
http://www.facebook.com/login.php
Curious. My Flock browser thrashed around on the first one, taking at
least four times as long as on the second one ... but the two pages that
showed up appeared identical. I could see all kinds of files being
processed from the first link, but nothing was being displayed except
the status line. The second link processed so fast I couldn't move my
eyes down to the status line before it finished.
The Firefox extension previously mentioned for removing ads seems to
work equally well with Flock.
James
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