flyerguy - 12:46 am on Nov 29, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'm more or less a layman but wouldn't the web be way more efficient if it was binary? What is the deal? <my tag> is infinitely less borg-ish than 0's and 1's.

Considering i'm still getting 'Dreamweaver Extension' marketing emails weekly, I can't expect the argument of usability for designers can be much of a stretch > mom and pop can use software that outputs pages as binary. Voila, huge amounts of bytes saved in crunching.

Someone, who is more geeked out, please explain why this isn't a pressing issue like electric cars. So much electricity, hardware, etc. to be spared, why is WWW not in binary?