thumbs up to clean code.

[JWJ]

I am in the process of making another new page on my site and this involves copying code from existing pages to new ones. As I'm copying the code I am taking the opportunity to strip out all <font> tags etc and making it totally css dependant. For the first time I have actually seen two, virtually identical pages, one written as I always used to write code and the other much cleaner. The old page did not validate, the new one does ... but the thing that startled me the most is page size. The old page is 15kb and the new one 4kb. There are a couple of other matters that account for some of the difference but in the main I'm looking at a two-third size reduction.

[jonra01]

You are also looking at code that is easier to read and edit, aren't you?

[JWJ]

Absolutely !!!

[webado]

Of course all the trouble has simply been moved to the style sheet LOL!

But all in all that can be easier to handle - after all the initial frustrations of css, of course - with the developper tool in FF for instance where you can edit CSS on the fly and see the effect right away.

[howardgreens]

Hm...

On this particular system, using Firefox as a viewer, the page is anything but 'clean', however...

[Sharron]

I would hate to concur, but I must FF is making a mess of it.

[arlens]

From here it looks great in IE 7 but very messy in FF 1.5

[webado]

Ouch! Indeed FF has decided all the divs are one on top of each other.

[Sharron]

deleted post contents as I decided I didn't know what I was doing! Sorry

[Sharron]

Same here, more ignorance
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