Use of nbsp

[Head Boy]

I've noticed that a number of people use   istead of a blank. Is this because they want the SE to pick up a concatenation, but they want the surfer to see the two individual words. An example is -

Outlaw Girl instead of Outlaw Girl

[Greenguy]

Most of the time, I'd bet the html editor inserts that on them. But I know when I used to code my pages by hand, if I wanted 2 or more spaces, I had to put in a string of  's so that it looked the way I wanted it to online.

[ronnie]

Is'nt using nbsp more proper html rather than a blank space? How does this make a difference in the SE's?

As Greenguy said, I use it when I need a space.

ronnie

[Useless]

If you want more than one space between anything, you have to use it. You could also use a transparent spacer gif, but that wouldn't be appropriate in all situations. I use a spacer gif to make my cock look bigger.

[Head Boy]

I know that SEs concatenate a string like outlaw_girl and read it as outlawgirl, which is why you should use outllaw-girl as a file name if you want to promote the phrase. I wondered if the SEs used &nbsp as a delimiter or a concatenation. It was looking at the source on a link on GG&J that made me think about it, but I can't remember which thread it was in now.

[cd34]

its the reason that internet connections need to be so much larger. The proliferation of   means sending 6 characters down the line rather than one.

Its a conspiracy to make people by larger connections.

Google at one point estimated they would save millions per year by not using   and not using standards compliant html. No ", no carriage returns, etc. Although they do use   for hardspacing in their product menus, they have pretty much done what they can to make that page as small as possible.

To my knowledge, they haven't used mod_gzip/mod_deflate, but, being a market maker, I think their bandwidth costs aren't as much an issue now.

[matt]

Originally Posted by cd34

its the reason that internet connections need to be so much larger. The proliferation of   means sending 6 characters down the line rather than one.

Its a conspiracy to make people by larger connections.

Google at one point estimated they would save millions per year by not using   and not using standards compliant html. No ", no carriage returns, etc. Although they do use   for hardspacing in their product menus, they have pretty much done what they can to make that page as small as possible.

To my knowledge, they haven't used mod_gzip/mod_deflate, but, being a market maker, I think their bandwidth costs aren't as much an issue now.

Very interesting stuff. However, google don't run apache, although their server could be a mod of it... They even made their own file system and I presume good compression would be a key point. |viking|

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by cd34

Google at one point estimated they would save millions per year by not using   and not using standards compliant html.

That is crazy, but makes good sense. The non-breaking space is pretty backwards (using 6 characters to represent 1 character is not too efficient).

[Head Boy]

Originally Posted by Verbal

That is crazy, but makes good sense. The non-breaking space is pretty backwards (using 6 characters to represent 1 character is not too efficient).

That's why I wondered if there was some SE trick involved when it is used once in the middle of a normal text string.

[Verbal]

Head Boy, I wouldn't use it where you just need one space, for the reasons mentioned here. However, either way is correct HTML. I'd be really surprised if a SE penalized you for using one way instead of the other.