Error comments on Turning the Technical Crank - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Error 05 April 2016 07:30:58PM 1 point [-]

The format for server-side processing and storage should be the input format unless there is specific cause not to use it (3.2). Conversion to display formats should be done client-side and as late as possible. HTML, as Dan says, is a display format.

(this distinction exists even for server-side clients, e.g. web clients)

Comment author: Lumifer 05 April 2016 07:46:09PM 2 points [-]

The format for server-side processing and storage should be the input format

When you say "input" here you mean "what the client sends to the server". When DanArmak is talking about input, he is talking about the user experience, ease of writing and editing. These are obviously not the same thing.

HTML, as Dan says, is a display format.

It is, now. When designed, it wasn't.