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The problem is text editor support. People don't trust binary data and want to see it in a text editor. ASCII has four characters reserved for separation so rid
by globular-toast 3y ago
The problem is text editor support. People don't trust binary data and want to see it in a text editor. ASCII has four characters reserved for separation so ridiculous formats like xSV where x is an in-band character are unnecessary. It's just the text editor support that is lacking. Even Emacs can't seem to do it well.
- tracker1 3y agoI used those characters in the latter 90s when sending query results to a web client. There was a set of parameters with ADO to seriously the data or to a string. It was easy enough to split/map it back in the client. Using hidden frames for jsonp-like request and callback support, that was the fun stuff. Don't miss it. Also don't miss XML or SOAP.