On 12/8/05, Bert Doorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day > > Michael Cordover wrote: > > I think that Google's failure to validate may be due to the simple > > issue of bandwidth. Certainly on the main page, the whole source is > > compressed and effectively minimised. Bandwidth is expensive these > > days. Inserting a doctype, separating style data, that sort of thing, > > takes a lot of additional bandwidth when you're dealing with hits in > > the quantities that they do. > > I don't follow your logic. > > Bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper, at least where I live. > > Getting rid of tables, font elements etc is likely to make their > pages lighter, rather than heavier, especially when all > presentation and behaviour is moved into (cached) external style > sheet(s) javascript file(s) respectively. > > Downloading a style sheet once, or downloading all the > presentational code on every page view - which one is going to > cost them more in bandwidth?
Valid CSS based design would definitely improve Google's speed, not hamper it. I think the reason Google doesn't care is just that they are already profitable as it is. Companies like Google are driven by profit and they are the market leader in what they do. If I went to Google and told them that changing their front end would allow them to reach more customer and become more profitable, they wouldn't see the need. And though they have a good laugh with the "do no evil" foolery, they don't really care if their markup is inaccessible. Someone mentioned they are back-end programmers, and from dealing with back-end programmers at school, I know that most of them consider HTML to be really easy and pointless so they don't bother or care to learn how to use HTML correctly. If I told them how complex HTML/XHTML/CSS really is they would think I was crazy. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
