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freehorse
63 days ago
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A love letter to the CSV format
Depends on what you mean by "better". I would rather software not handle a piece of data at all, than handle it erroneously and changing the data without me realising and thus causing all sorts of issues after.
d0mine
63 days ago
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In practice, web browsers accept the tag soup that is sometimes called html and strict xml-based formats failed.
afiori
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The browser are not a database (unlike excel). Modifying data before showing it is reversible, modifying it before storing it is not.
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