If you hoover on the check mark it says “reinforce layout with invisible gif” What does it do and should it be checked or not ?
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Left to their own devices, tables collapse to the size of their contents. Freeway (in Table Layout mode) will draw a table to hold all of your page contents into the layout. These tables will collapse unless they contain some non-compressable content, like images, so Freeway will add a column on the right and a row on the bottom of any layout table filled with a stretched GIF image (either 1px wide or 1px tall) to “scaffold” the table and force it to keep its shape, even if the cells are empty. This setting allows you to enable or disable this feature. Try it both ways and see how it looks. If you don’t see any difference in a modern browser, then get rid of it and lose a few K of extraneous (and non-semantic) code. (Arguably, you are already not on the side of the semantic angels if you have enabled Table Layout mode – you should be using CSS Layout to stay buzzword-compliant.)
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On May 14, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Artivideo wrote:
If you hoover on the check mark it says “reinforce layout with invisible gif” What does it do and should it be checked or not ?
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I switched “reinforce layout with invisible gif” off and do not see any difference in various browsers nor my android phone Samsung Note. Also switching from HMTL 4.01 transitional to XHMTL trasitional 1.0 gives no change in the various browser. So I kept it on XHMTL because I have the feeling that is more future prove ?
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Also I can not detect a different between the options “more readable” and “more efficient” in every day use of my site. I see that when I switch to more efficient spaces in the code are deleted but it gives no improvement in terms of speed since that modification probably does not make the files much smaller.
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It’s really a distinction without meaning. All it does is make the code more difficult for a human to parse, in my experience. The modern network speeds and browser (and computer) speeds are so many orders of magnitude greater than the state of the art in 1998, when this feature first appeared. (Freeway 1 had only More Efficient, which made my programmer partner nearly blind, and certainly made him less respectful of what Freeway was doing at the time.)
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On May 16, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Artivideo wrote:
Also I can not detect a different between the options “more readable” and “more efficient” in every day use of my site. I see that when I switch to more efficient spaces in the code are deleted but it gives no improvement in terms of speed since that modification probably does not make the files much smaller.
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