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as you know text files transfer much faster than binary files. is it da same with files on the sd memory stick?
so you think the book is wrong. its microsfoft press. steve balmer and bill gates checked it. its gotta be right.
from da book "LEARN HTML5".
To understand how this system of tagging came about, you need to know that back in the early days of the Internet, nearly everyone connected to it by using dial-up modems at speeds ranging from 2400 bps to 28.8 Kbps. That’s really slow. Text files transfer much faster than binary files, so for any type of information-sharing system to be popular, it had to be text-based. Otherwise, people would doze off while waiting for a page to load.
Since Micor$oft are known to be the oracle of truth and integrity, I suggest you stick to you books and Micro$oft stuff.
"Text files transfer much faster than binary files"
That statement, as it stands, is wrong!
In fact, text usually gives a lower encoding "efficiency" than binary, so a text file containing the same information as a binary file is likely to be larger and, therefore, take longer to transmit!
What they're probably trying to say, as Per has suggested, is that a plain-text file with no formatting, graphics, etc will be much smaller than a formatted file with graphics etc - which tends to be in a "binary" format.
No, I don't think the book is wrong. But I think you fail to pick up the message that the authors tried to send out. If that is a problem on your side, or if it is a failure of the authors, is a completely different discussion.
"its microsfoft press. steve balmer and bill gates checked it"
You really think that they personally proof-read each book themselves?!
"i saw it in a book about programming ... 'LEARN HTML5'"
Hmmmm... while HTML5 is a certain kind of programming, it is very far removed from the kind of programming for embedded firmware relevant to this forum!
You really shouldn't be looking for low-level implementation detail in such a high-level application book!!
LOL. I once spoke to a non-techie and he was quite insistant that it was William Gates who wrote all the Microsoft software. He actually got quite agitated when I tried to tell him what really happened.