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		daleharvey on Aug 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTML is object code 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.

wvenable on Aug 2, 2009 [–]

So, your point is that programs can't process data if it isn't human readable?

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