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Because now the entire thing is loaded into the browser cache and doesn't need loading at all across the entire site


Also you don't have the combinatorial explosion of making sure that the CSS for the new sidebar/footer/reusable element is available every time it appears in a page. It also simplifies debugging specificity issues a little (but shuffles the problem around a bit).




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