Speaking of conserving bandwidth, have you ever looked at the HTML on Google's home page

Speaking of conserving bandwidth, have you ever looked at the HTML on Google's home page. It's the most terse coding you'll ever find. The story goes that they calculated how much each character cost them in bandwidth costs, and multiplied that by the number of hits they get, and said, “Hey, if we called our form 'f' instead of 'main', we could save X dollars a year.” They use inline styles, to avoid a separate trip to the server just for a .css file. They don't even quote their attribute values. [diveintomark]

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