Comment by throwawayboise
4 years ago
> Passing strings from program to program is a pain
The internet has been pretty successful and many popular protocols (http, smtp, etc) are exactly "passing strings from program to program"
4 years ago
> Passing strings from program to program is a pain
The internet has been pretty successful and many popular protocols (http, smtp, etc) are exactly "passing strings from program to program"
And behind the scenes of internet-based services there's a whole ecosystem of "how can we do shit more robustly than just passing strings around" (or even for "better than XML or JSON").
Which is why all browsers render the same thing exactly the same way and there's no need at all to test more than one. Yep.
The presentation layer has nothing to do with he protocol layer...
If you pump some serialised binary into a browser it will still render wrong.