Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "CSS Is 2.4x Slower Than Inline Styles (Oh No...)" video.

I would actually expect these results because it only has to fetch one file to process the page contents and start displaying things. However, I would also expect that a website that was developed properly would have some degree of backup mechanisms in place to allow for rendering to happen prior to the main stylesheet being fully loaded. What I am surprised by is the difference between inline styles and inline CSS with the style tag. That is where I would expect no difference, yet inline styles were faster, and while it wasn't expected I think I know why. Also, I would like to see a video on the whole rendering pipeline.
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