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Re:HTML is object code by daleharvey on Saturday August 01, 2009 @10:21PM (#736982)
2 of those 3 'clients' were people (screen scrapers and client scripts). In order for either of these to exist the data needs to be in a code that can be read by people.
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Re:HTML is object code by wvenable on Saturday August 01, 2009 @11:44PM (#737045)
So, your point is that programs can't process data if it isn't human readable?
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