Re: XML Hangovers
Reply #5 –
Is it really sooo important to save some bytes? I don't believe it's more than just a few Megabytes in a month, even for a bigger sized board...
I personally prefer the XHTML5 syntax but I don't care that much using one or the other for Elk, thus I'd bow to the majority.
Re: XML Hangovers
Reply #7 –
I go with HTML5. Sometimes I'll use the slash and sometimes I'll do checked="checked". Either way, so long as it validates as HTML5, I don't waste time (unless I'm bored) making any changes.
Re: XML Hangovers
Reply #13 –
It certainly does feel faster than SMF2 already, although it's hard to compare apples and oranges (was that the proper expression?) when they're on two different servers.
Re: XML Hangovers
Reply #14 –
If any admin is worried about 100 bytes per page, they are ridiculous. An image alone is many KB. If they're concerned with it, I say let them rewrite all of the themes. This is 2014, not 1976; the bandwidth of any hosting plan is of a large enough size and capacity that it doesn't matter.
Just do what makes development easier. If you worry about minutia, you'll turn off developers. When you turn off developers, you become stagnant. When you become stagnant, you don't get or don't retain users.