Myspace is hideous. Design wise.
Saturday, 15. October 2005, 20:12:38
myspace
First off, I like web standards. I think that XHTML and CSS is seriously the way to go and that people should try to use them to their full potential, which is sort of an open ended statement because the possibilities are nearly endless. But people don't use XHTML or CSS. Some people use absolutely terrible HTML with many presentational tags built into it. One of these is Myspace. Myspace is a social networking website with a lot of users, mainly young people who cry a lot. I am a member. Myspace is absolutely disgusting with it's use of HTML. 43 tables are used in my profiles page alone. Myspace would be an ideal candidate for a XHTML/CSS makeover. With standards-compliant XHTML, the pages would be a lot more customizable with CSS and the pages would be a lot smaller, on the order of 1/5th the size, quite possibly even less if they redo their backend so that their links aren't 212 (yes, seriously) characters long. I'm playing around with making my profile compliant right now but it's hard to strip out everything. The original page was 70k alone with 200k of images and right now, I'm down to 40k for the page and there is a lot more to go. I'm guessing that I could design the page the exact same way for 1/3 the size. Times that by the more than 3 million Myspace users and that is a lot of bandwidth saved. If I don't give up trying, I'll make another post about it on here. I won't upload it or anything due to the legal implications to both Opera as well as myself but I'll state the savings earned using web standards versus proprietary web tag soup.
EDIT: XHTML stripped of tables: ~10k. Original: ~70k.
sanaking # 10. February 2006, 04:26
Word up for the good thoughts! On the onion, and this (as that's what I've read so far..). Hasta luego, -@
Contrid # 12. March 2007, 00:20