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Mr Initial Man
08-12-2005, 12:38 AM
When I was done with the page, it was 101kbs (CSS included), but, hey, it had a LOT of text. Before I began fixing the HTML, the file size was....

TWO MEGS!

I kid you not! Not only did they have <font> tags everywhere, but they had NESTED <font> tags. Including those that controlled color. And they had them by literally the THOUSANDS.

If you want to have a look at this excuse for a page, here's the URL. http://www.angelfire.com/stars5/cmfresults/Resurrection.html

BTW, I saved the page to my computer, because my browser couldn't load the entire page.
chrisranjana
08-12-2005, 05:35 AM
Yes it is a big page !
buntine
08-12-2005, 05:41 AM
Not sure where the problem is. Took about 1 second to load completely on my machine.
NogDog
08-12-2005, 05:59 AM
Is it time for WebDeveloper.com to host a 5K Web Site Contest?

Here's an article about the original one: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/5k/

Unfortunately, it looks like the actual contest site is no longer on-line. :(
Stephen Philbin
08-12-2005, 08:14 AM
You mean see who can render a nice looking presentation of a set piece of data for the least possible bandwidth?
NogDog
08-12-2005, 11:06 AM
You mean see who can render a nice looking presentation of a set piece of data for the least possible bandwidth?
The original contest accepted any content, the only restriction being the entire content (HTML, graphics, etc.) had to be less than 5KB total.
Mr Initial Man
08-12-2005, 03:07 PM
Not sure where the problem is. Took about 1 second to load completely on my machine.

I have dial-up. It takes a while longer. That, and the complete page never DID download for me.

BTW, what I downloaded and saved to my computer doesn't match what the page source says. There, it looks quite normal.

But when I downloaded and SAVED it, that's when I got the thousands of <font> tags.