Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
by Vrondi on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:21PM
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Yes, but HTML 1.0 renders perfectly in any web browser in existence. That's the amazing part. Browsers are designed to fall back to render older versions of standards.
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
by robin_reala on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:32AM
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HTML1 [1] isn’t that different, it’s just a much smaller subset.
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:00AM
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Gzip is not a container format. Pkzip is far more flexible.
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
by oblio on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:37AM
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You will also happy to read about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Once something is mainstream and non-perishable, odds of it going away go down and it's foreseeable that it will be around for at least as long as it's already been around.
This effect is super strong in tech, for base technologies, with lots of integrations, especially around enterprise/governmental systems (which don't get changed unless someone makes a strong business case why the change makes more money) and consumer hardware (which tends to linger for aeons since it's so distributed).
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
by deafpolygon on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:14PM
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Back to vim or emacs then!
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
by yyyk on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:22PM
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>and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason.
Also, several other tiny insignificant Operating Systems like Android(/Linux) [apk files] and Windows [builtin explorer support]. Let's also not forget Java JAR files.
They are all-but deprecated though: HTML 1.0 is much different from HTML5 (2014); XML is upgraded to XML 1.1 (2004) and most people use JSON nowadays; and ZIP is very inferior to gzip and 7-zip. We're lucky web browsers are strict with never remove compatibility for old sites, and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason.