We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Herbie: Fully Loaded.

I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.

Most consumers wouldn't be able to tell whether the display is 12 milliseconds or 1 millisecond.