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Originally Posted by latepaul
If they could persuade anyone to pay more for an ebook without excess CSS I'd agree, though 'lazy' is not the word I'd use. As it is I'd call it 'efficient'
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I call it lazy as well. I remember, when I first started working (software development for internet) we had to make pages as small as possible. Bytes were money! Even so that in the HTML, CSS and javascript you removed any non-mandatory space, just to make the file as small as possible.
Later, with the advent of ISDN (paired) and DSL, this became less and less necessary and we became lazy in removing extra lines or cleaning up code (beside what you have to do to keep it managable, naturally).
Later still, even though broadband was the standard, we had to return to the pre-DSL time and make pages as small as possible again: mobile phones. Time was again put in to clean any non-required spaces.
Now, with almost unlimited mobile bundles (at least, on this side of the big pond), developers are getting lazy again, and don't clean their code as they should.
It might be "efficient" on the creator's side: no excess time spent, but most certainly not efficient on the reader's side: larger than required files, which might take longer to process, because of nothing important.