Re: [tlug] Acid drop on mobile?

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 16/02/2008, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

>  On the other hand, if they're small, 256 or 512 bytes, your users will
>  have to pay for several in any case.  You can cut the overhead (and
>  lags) of multiple requests, but the savings will be 20% instead of
>  50%.

>From my observations, Japanese consumers who are likely to be using
your keitai web app don't care about page size--they either have
tsukai-houdai data plans or their parents are paying their keitai bill
anyway. :)

Which is not to say that one should not optimise, of course, but
suggests that optimising for speed of loading rather than overall page
size may give your users what they want.

-- 
Cheers,
Josh