On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:14:27 +0000 (UTC), Jon Ribbens
<jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:

>On 2009-09-30, Charles Lindsey  wrote:
>> Later, when coded formats for sounds, pictures and compressed files
>> appeared, the term "binary" was extended to cover those. So now it means
>> esssentially any notation which requires special hardware and/or software
>> to render it in intelligible form.
>
>So you agree that HTML is binary then?

It really doesn't matter. Back when the 'standard' paragraph was
written, 'binary' was taken to mean things like pictures, sound files
etc.  You've only got to look at the thing to see that.
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