> 99% of webservice and webapp communication is done using textual protocols. Yep. <img src="whatever.jpg"> is indeed all text. and zip would have turned tho

> 99% of webservice and webapp communication is done using textual protocols. Yep. <img src="whatever.jpg"> is indeed all text. and zip would have turned those 25 bytes into 191. And then a 300KB highly-compressed binary data file would be transmitted. aka "Penny-wise and pound-foolish."