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I dare to say that human readability that accounts for that extra size allowed many people to learn basics about how internet works, namely HTML and its compatr
by saiya-jin 3y ago
I dare to say that human readability that accounts for that extra size allowed many people to learn basics about how internet works, namely HTML and its compatriots. Mankind would be poorer for this enriching experience, even if it resides mostly in the past, and for me personally 15% (or 100% extra) could easily justify that.
Plus add easiness of debugging this (before you bring some javascript monstrosity that hacks around it and will stop working probably in weeks after paid support of it ends)
- toomim 3y agoA better example is HTTP, which is text, but read by humans much less frequently.
- tialaramex 3y agoOnly HTTP/0.9 HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 are probably text in the sense you mean HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are binary formats, they are semantically very similar to the older formats in some sense, but you would benefit from more tools to examine them properly because human readability was not the priority.