Web pages (what you're looking at now) are made up of text called HTML. If you right click this page and hit View Page Source (or equivalent), you'll be able to see it. Now, some of the things in there are called elements. For example, near the top of the HTML you can see a line that looks like this:[quote][/quote]Elements within the HTML also have things called attributes, which is what I've underlined for you (there are three).
Here's the problem: If you look at each of the attributes in the HTML for all of Bungie.net's pages, they're all [b][u]double quotes[/u][/b]!
If the Web Team replaced all of the double quotes with single quotes, there wouldn't be so many characters that need to be sent. Thus, there would be less bandwidth being because the page sizes are smaller, reducing the strain on Bungie's servers and your connection. It's a win for everyone!
I implore the Web Team to implement this change in the next site update.
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Now, would this make a noticeable difference?
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This is it. Daz is the Webmaster.
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Change is bad. *grumble* *grumble* It will be abused *grumble* *grumble* B.net isn't...um...Facebook?
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This will only lead to elitism.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Duardo This will only lead to elitism.[/quote]I knew I forgot one. Look at all the negatives. This is clearly a bad idea.
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I don't understand any of this but heck lets do it.
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Not that the site is slow or anything, but we should do this.
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Single quotes? Why not go even further and make em half quotes?
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Bungie.net is not Facebook. How many times do you need to be told?
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Same number of characters sent: " vs '
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wouldn't a single quote be the same number of characters? it would just be a different character that the servers would be sending. dang beat to it. see above post. [Edited on 04.29.2012 10:43 PM PDT]
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They should probably just get rid of that tag altogether.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Deathcon 5 Same number of characters sent: " vs '[/quote] Visually, it's twice as many pixels sent. It's a big difference. Trust me, I coded scripts for this site.
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Great idea but people already quote employees too much.
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Adapt.
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So instead of the page loading in 0.011735 seconds, it will load in 0.011612 seconds? Sweet! Why haven't they done this yet?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Deathcon 5 Same number of characters sent: " vs '[/quote]Quote marks (both single and double) for attribute values are not encoded to their HTML-entity equivalents in the HTML itself. They are raw characters.
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Would this not have the unfortunate consequence of reducing the buffer on terrible posters? I disapprove.
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I don't think it would make that much difference. If you want to get technical [url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bungie.net%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.3]W3C is okay with it being double quoted[/url]. [url=http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_html.asp]Reference[/url] [Edited on 04.30.2012 2:56 PM PDT]
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I was gonna say either more hamsters in more wheels or get a better internet kid. I guess your way works too.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Geegs30 Single quotes? Why not go even further and make em half quotes?[/quote] Psh, lets up the ante and go quarter quotes.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] dibbs089 Change is bad. *grumble* *grumble* It will be abused *grumble* *grumble* B.net isn't...um...Facebook?[/quote] I think everyone here just needs to learn to [b]adapt[/b]. Honestly. You're just bad if your pages aren't loading quick enough. End of story. Also, [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] arch4ng13 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Geegs30 Single quotes? Why not go even further and make em half quotes?[/quote] Psh, lets up the ante and go quarter quotes.[/quote]Do you think the page would load in a more fancy-fashion if we used triplet quotes? [Edited on 04.30.2012 3:07 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] arch4ng13 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Geegs30 Single quotes? Why not go even further and make em half quotes?[/quote] Psh, lets up the ante and go quarter quotes.[/quote]Better yet, let's just drop quotes altogether. She'll purr like a dream...
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[i]Mother of God.[/i]
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I don't understand this thread. So, I'm going to pretend its about naked pictures of various community members hidden in the HTML. In that case, I agree, we need to get rid of all the fatties. Especially the ones who derail innocent topics with blatant carnality.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] arch4ng13 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Geegs30 Single quotes? Why not go even further and make em half quotes?[/quote] Psh, lets up the ante and go quarter quotes.[/quote]limit as x approaches infinity of 1/x quotes. Those guys will take up almost 0, man.