Re: Interesting that the communty here seems almost unified for once
""Given the quality (or lack thereof) of many commercial shopping sites I've seen..."
Thanks ThatOne.
As an example, the CSS on this site and its subsidiaries locks up an entire processor core at around 100% even with JavaScript turned off. Disable the style sheet and the load goes down to 5%. And that's essentially a static page. I haven't been faffed to reverse engineer it to find out why - I just go somewhere else.