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I looked up those formats and they are all around 30 years old, which is insane for technology and around when Windows 3.1 and Mac OS 7 were released. So maybe

I looked up those formats and they are all around 30 years old, which is insane for technology and around when Windows 3.1 and Mac OS 7 were released. So maybe they will stay... They are all-but deprecated though: HTML 1.0 is much different from HTML5 (2014); XML is upgraded to XML 1.1 (2004) and most people use JSON nowadays; and ZIP is very inferior to gzip and 7-zip. We're lucky web browsers are strict with never remove compatibility for old sites, and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason.

Vrondi 4y ago
Yes, but HTML 1.0 renders perfectly in any web browser in existence. That's the amazing part. Browsers are designed to fall back to render older versions of standards.
robin_reala 4y ago
HTML1 [1] isn’t that different, it’s mostly just a much smaller subset. [1] https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
Gzip is not a container format. Pkzip is far more flexible.
oblio 4y ago
You will also happy to read about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect Once something is mainstream and non-perishable, odds of it going away go down and it's foreseeable that it will be around for at least as long as it's already been around. This effect is super strong in tech, for base technologies, with lots of integrations, especially around enterprise/governmental systems (which don't get changed unless someone makes a strong business case why the change makes more money) and consumer hardware (which tends to linger for aeons since it's so distributed).
- deafpolygon 4y ago
  Back to vim or emacs then!
yyyk 4y ago
>and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason. Also, several other tiny insignificant Operating Systems like Android(/Linux) [apk files] and Windows [builtin explorer support]. Let's also not forget Java JAR files.

Vrondi 4y ago

Yes, but HTML 1.0 renders perfectly in any web browser in existence. That's the amazing part. Browsers are designed to fall back to render older versions of standards.

robin_reala 4y ago

HTML1 [1] isn’t that different, it’s mostly just a much smaller subset. [1] https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

Gzip is not a container format. Pkzip is far more flexible.

oblio 4y ago

You will also happy to read about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect Once something is mainstream and non-perishable, odds of it going away go down and it's foreseeable that it will be around for at least as long as it's already been around. This effect is super strong in tech, for base technologies, with lots of integrations, especially around enterprise/governmental systems (which don't get changed unless someone makes a strong business case why the change makes more money) and consumer hardware (which tends to linger for aeons since it's so distributed).

deafpolygon 4y ago
Back to vim or emacs then!

yyyk 4y ago

>and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason. Also, several other tiny insignificant Operating Systems like Android(/Linux) [apk files] and Windows [builtin explorer support]. Let's also not forget Java JAR files.