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Breaking news makes the case for standards

Friday | October 31, 2003 | 9:03 am  

E-media Tid­bits has an item about how the San Diego Union-​Tribune was swamped as the nation hit their servers to find out about the wildfires.

Just a friendly reminder from Waspy the stan­dards bug: Standards-​based lay­outs save you bandwith!

Some sites, like CNN, already have a stripped down ver­sion ready for break­ing news events that might swamp their servers.

But if you already use standards-​based layouts:

You’ll save bandwith now.

The level of traffic at which you might have to switch to a stripped-down version will be higher.

You could switch to the light layout easier by making changes to a global stylesheet.

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