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Don’t use @import

In Chapter 5 of High Performance Web Sites , I briefly mention that @import has a negative impact on web page performance. I dug into this deeper for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo , creating several test pages and HTTP waterfall charts, all shown below. The bottomline is: use LINK instead of @import if you want stylesheets…
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Apr 13, 2009Don’t use @import by mcxx7514

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