First off, Sorry to heare your dealing with a crisis. I hope things work
out for the good soon.
On 08/22/2016 01:20 AM, Joy Fisher wrote:
We are continuing to use text because:
1. It is efficient. I have taken a 500kb html file and reduced it to 5kb without losing
the data. Remember that a lot of folks are still using dial-up.
I've also taken poorly written HTML files and reduced to a much smaller
size, but still HTML.
3% of American households, according to Pew Research, use dial up.
http://time.com/3856066/aol-verizon-deal-dial-up-internet/
2. Hackers cannot put JavaScript into the files to spread a virus.
So, we should write text files instead of HTML.
3. Visitors can easily cut and paste information into their genealogy
program without having to edit out a bunch of html tags.
You can also copy paste just text from an HTML web page.
4. HTML is an evolving language. Many early tags have been deprecated; some still work
but later browsers many not support them. I do not want to have to edit 2 million files to
update the html tags. Text will still be as readable in the 22nd century as it was in the
20th century.
HTML is evolving and changes are made. But, there are a LOT of pages in
old HTML that will never be changed and browsers still render well.
There's no guarantee that any technology will still be usable in the
future. Some are saying that in one hundred years none of our work will
be readable. The technology we use will no longer exist.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is final.
You must learn to be slow in a hurry.
-Wyatt Earp-
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