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Warning - This blog post contains technical content that may not be suitable (or interesting) for all readers:

A few technically-inclined people have asked me about the Spottt HTML snippet that gets embedded into your site. Specifically, why does it contain <table> tags? And why didn’t we use Javascript?

It shouldn’t make a difference to most people. But some Web publishing platforms don’t support Javascript. For example, MySpace profiles, Blogger posts, and so on. The current Spottt HTML snippet should work in virtually any publishing platform, blog, or social networking profile that allows HTML embedding.

Also, our Spottt HTML snippet loads faster than a Javascript-include would, because it skips the three additional steps of (1) downloading the Javascript source from our server, (2) client-side Javascript processing, and (3) sending the client back to our server to retrieve the images, etc.

Finally, if our servers are ever slow, Spottt won’t slow down your page load. Worst case, it shows a broken image. But a slow Javascript-include could halt the loading of your entire page.

Glad you asked!  :)

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