David Woolley wrote:

> By number of hits or data volume transferred I wuould guess they
> are in an a minority compared with e-commerce sites.

Fair enough, but

> generally all have forms and help pages for those forms.

what's the number of help pages, compared to the number of actual 
content/product/whatever pages?

Sorry, but this defense of <var> seems a tad like it's clutching at straws.

P
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