Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags

Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by apetresc on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:38AM (#19971140)

This seems like insane advice. Even if it's technically permitted, the HTML5 spec page they themselves link to shows a bunch of caveats and exceptions that make it risky.

And for what - to save literally 10 bytes?

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Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by falsedan on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:40AM (#19971186)

times that 10 bytes by all the pages googlebot spiders and that's significant savings on bandwidth & storage for big G

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Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:50AM (#19971304)

We're talking about the folks who host YouTube, right?

The savings from this won't be the slightest bit significant to them.

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Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by falsedan on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:10PM (#19972141)

ok thanks Warren buffet

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Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by marcosdumay on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:59PM (#19972804)

I really doubt they avoid data fragmentation well enough for this to make a difference.

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