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So, according to you Web pages should have been some binary blobs instead of the beautiful soup we all love to hate? Then we would not have seen this eruption o

by gbog 15y ago

So, according to you Web pages should have been some binary blobs instead of the beautiful soup we all love to hate? Then we would not have seen this eruption of amateur pages with animated gifs? And all the Web would be clean and straight as early Frontpage HTML? Can't agree less.

viraptor 15y ago
No, maybe I should've been more specific - I mean only the formats which are well-defined and which have their own structure. Especially things like image file formats, communication protocols, etc. For example, I wouldn't mind it if HTTP was a binary format. I don't think HTML has to be... it's a markup language not a strict protocol. It was a bit arbitrary by design. Same thing with markdown. They were supposed to work with existing text as much as possible. HTTP doesn't need that - noone's writing HTTP by hand and even if they kind-of do that, they use things like Curl which provide an abstraction anyway.