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One would never use HTML to transfer data between two systems*, this author really missed the Forest for the trees. *unless of course one system is scraping th
by WesSouza 4y ago
One would never use HTML to transfer data between two systems*, this author really missed the Forest for the trees.
*unless of course one system is scraping the other and has no control of what it outputs.
- zulu-inuoe 4y agoYou have to put it in context, though. This was back in 1999. Plenty of people even today push for semantic HTML. HTML is said to represent a document, and documents have structure. So I'm sure it wasn't all that uncommon to take it to mean that this structure was machine readable.
- coldtea 4y ago>One would never use HTML to transfer data between two systems And yet it happened all the time back in the day, and there was even a big push to get into XML-izing html to xhtml and make it stricter and parsable and "semantic".