A little common sense Re: The Superhighway Steamroller
solman@MIT.EDU
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 11:28:14 +0200
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Subject: A little common sense Re: The Superhighway Steamroller
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> Idea rejecting html like rejecting article & punctuation maybe even grammar
> save bandwidth Sure you can but why go backwards New media call for new
> grammar style punctuation cover pages etc like for gutenberg (Just thought
> I'd take us back in time to when things were more "efficient.")
DAMNIT. Everybody keeps on saying that HTML requires more bandwidth than
ASCII and they are WRONG! You keep on assuming that the documents are going
to be passed as plain ascii. In any intelligent system they won't be. (I
am not claiming that the software out there has a high IQ, but I would claim
that a year from now it will.) Now use a reasonably intelligent compression
program and tell it that HTML is comming through, and on average you're
going to get a file that that is almost exactly the same size. There is
absolutely no reason why "</em>" would take more bits to encode than "*".
There, now I feel much better.
JWS