Sent by Syntactic: Jim Wilkinson on 27 January 2005 18:06
Jonny,
> 3. Yes, but. There is an issue with latency (delay) that can be very
> high for phones. External style sheets are more efficient and easier to
> maintain, but incurs at least one (slow) roundtrip the first time
> around. If I were to really optimise for phones I would add the most
> crucial styles in an embedded 'style' section. After the first page,
> when the style sheet is cached, this problem largely disappear.
I understand your point about latency (an extra GET for the CSS file). But
I'm not clear how embedding the most crucial styles in a <style> element
will make a difference. Can you elaborate please? Perhaps you have
"redrawing" in mind - if handheld browsers do this as their bigger desktop
cousins do.
--
Jim Wilkinson
Cardiff, Wales UK
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