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The Benefits of Efficiency

One of the touted benefits of CSS is that it reduces total page weight, and thus download time, both at first page load, and even more on subsequent loads due to style sheet caching. This is true, but often a sizable fraction of the first load savings is lost because of highly redundant CSS code.

Commonly used shorthand properties include:

• font (controls "font-size", "font-weight", "line-height", etc.)
• background (controls element backgrounds, placement, repeating, etc.)
• list-style (sets the properties of the list item "bullet")
• margin (defines the width of margins on the sides of a box)
• border (defines properties for the borders on a box - there are several shorthand properties involving borders)
• padding (defines the width of padding within the sides of a box)

Writing Efficient CSS

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To: public-evangelist@w3.org
From: "Karl Dubost"
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:10:42 -0400
Subject: [public-evangelist]
 
I have just read that and I thought it will be good to remember in these days that we hear about many alternate developments. We have to be very careful in every choices we make. All of them will have consequences.
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I hate working with HTML. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy page layout. I've spent many happy hours behind the wheel of Quark Xpress and when I put together my first web site I was convinced it would be just like creating a brochure in Quark. I wasn't alone in this delusion. When the appeal of the world-wide-web became apparent to the masses every design house in the country added web design to their list of services without a second thought. The web promises so much, and from the point of view of a designer it has yet to deliver. I can design a page that looks splendid on my microsoft browser only to discover with horror that I left a quote mark out and Netscape has been rendering my pages with neon green backgrounds. (if this page looks really bad on your browser please, let me know) The rift left by the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft is still felt with every html tag we type.
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The rest is at http://www.photo-mark.com/articles/database/
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Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
W3C Conformance Manager
*** Be Strict To Be Cool ***

Struts Page Construction Tags
This taglib contains tags used to create struts input forms, as well as other tags generally useful in the creation of HTML-based user interfaces.
Many of the tags in this tag library will throw a JspException at runtime when they are utilized incorrectly (such as when you specify an invalid combination of tag attributes). JSP allows you to declare an "error page" in the <%@ page %> directive. If you wish to process the actual exception that caused the problem, it is passed to the error page as a request attribute under key org.apache.struts.action.EXCEPTION.

WebReference JavaScript Articles

Dreamweaver Fever
CSS Problem-Solving
some links for dhtml and other technologies
XSLT Questions and Answers
XPath: XML Path Language
50 XSLT Tips

This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist.
Style Guide