Use of nbsp

[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.