Re: FN-FORUM 99.9% of websites are outdated

date posted 11th September 2002 21:17

> what a fart.
> Shaf

"Yahoo's front page is served millions of times per day. Each byte wasted on
outdated HTML design hacks is multiplied by an astronomical number of page
views, resulting in gigabytes of traffic that tax Yahoo's servers and add
Pentagon-like costs to its overhead.

If Yahoo would simply replace its deprecated, bandwidth-gobbling tags
with bandwidth-friendly CSS, the cost of serving each page would greatly
diminish, and the company's profits would consequently rise. So why hasn't
Yahoo made the switch?"

## On the contrary to being a fart, Zeldman's comments add more grist to
MK's mill about proper markup, which includes specifying defaults via css.

"That this otherwise brilliant company wastes untold bandwidth to deliver a
look and feel no one admires says everything you need to know about the
entrenched mindset of developers who hold "backward compatibility" in higher
esteem than reason, usability, or their own profits."

## I need add no more to my previous comments...

Paul.