Re: [PHP-EVANGELISM] Yahoo! expands its usage of PHP - one of our best wins yet?

> You gotta be kidding me? This is small enhancement but it's a worthwhile
> one because it doesn't require much change, and has no side-effects
> (unless you're gonna make up a story about increased load times)

Well, I just held a talk which involved many reasons on today's
increased load times as reasons to write rich clients, so I am quite
on this topic...

> How the hell is it making the page bigger?

Can you add them without making the page bigger? It would be quite nice ;)
Anyway, it seems to be a small change, but if you consider the hits our
website gets, you will probably understand that it counts...


Consider our July stats [ http://php.net/stats/ ], the English manual
index was downloaded 256288 times. Multiply this with the relatively small
amount of code needed to add this code, and you get it. And this is only one
page for one language (though the most visited one ;).

> As far as user-agent implementation is concerned, it's not about
> implementation as it is about standards.

If you have a big site, you probably care more about load, then using
unsupported standards... The <link> standards are just getting to
be accepted, and as Jim said, they still have problems...

> You can't be talking about the 2 or 3 link tags? It's not like it's
> gonna make any difference to page load times - people spend more kb on
> comments (which are ignored by the user agent).

We don't have comments in the HTML output (except UDM comments, which are
needed for search engines to get accurate results from our site)...

Anyway for a first step, I have added these three links (next, prev,
start) to the *printed* versions of the manual, so you can try them out
and give feedback...

Goba