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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[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.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Deathcon 5 Same number of characters sent: " vs '[/quote] Pages are sent as plaintext. Those are HTML entities, or "HTML-safe" strings used to prevent security problems like XSS. If you tried to write an attrib like that, it wouldn't load. OT: Lol, I can't see this making more of a few ms difference. I've always thought it was standard practice to use double quotes for HTML attributes -- in fact, I go out of my way to do it. I write my js with single quotes and my HTML with double. Actually, wait a second. Is
really different at all from
? From what I can tell, this change wouldn't make a difference at all.
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Sev is confused...
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I think we should all eat the HTML. Problem solved, /thread.
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i like the site slow...
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LOL at comments.
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0v3rcl0ck Bungie.net [b][i]Believe[/i][/b]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] evilcam 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. [/quote]For some reason I construed this post as a confession that you in fact a fat inadequately pleasured gamer girl. Maybe a few leaps of logic there but I am sure I am at least partially right.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] spawn031 Adapt.[/quote]
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Somebody get the boys in the lab to check this out!
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By george anyone who questions the ways of the Bungie Web Team shall be banned until fruther notice... Effective Immediatly!
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That seems like a good idea. Admittedly I know almost nothing about this, but it sounds like a good way to speed up the site without any downside.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] True Underdog 0v3rcl0ck Bungie.net [b][i]Believe[/i][/b][/quote] [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Duardo This will only lead to elitism.[/quote] [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] x Foman123 x Bungie.net is not Facebook. How many times do you need to be told?[/quote] [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] evilcam 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. [/quote] Someone ban these trolls.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Achilles1108 Get a better internet kid.[/quote] Yeah daza, get on our level. I won't pretend to understand any of this, but i'm all for it.
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There isn't really that much traffic coming in but I guess this would nice :)
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I'm going to make a T-shirt that says that. ~Delta [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] x Foman123 x Bungie.net is not Facebook. How many times do you need to be told?[/quote]
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No. If the community can't accept change in the halo games, why would they accept it on the website?
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One month from people being threatened with bans for april fools threads to this -blam!-e. To the day. Classy.
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I don't know enough about HTML to neither confirm nor deny if what Daz is saying is feasible, however, if it is, I don't see why this shouldn't be implemented.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Deathcon 5 Same number of characters sent: " vs '[/quote]"stuff" "stuff" "stuff" (6 quotes and 2 spaces) "stuff stuff stuff" (2 quotes and 2 space) [Edited on 05.01.2012 9:29 AM PDT]
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We should just divide the quotes by 0.
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There would be the same amount of characters.
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I don't understand HTML enough to know if this thread was originally a joke or turned into one.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] dazarobbo 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. [/quote] Although this is true, the amount of optimization would be non-noticeable even on Bungie's scale. Now if Bungie had an extreme amount of hits(Facebook or Yahoo level), then maybe. Also, like an earlier post says, it would be the same amount of characters anyways. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you don't even need quotes anymore according to W3C. [Edited on 05.01.2012 9:45 AM PDT]
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What keeps you coming back??
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Will this make that much of a difference though? The site isn't slow for me. It can be slow at times but very rarely. Like I just said the only real concern about this would be if it's even worth it.