Bruce A. Frank wrote:
Hmm, I thought HTML *IS* text.



Well, it is, and it ain't.


Yes, it's all ASCII text, but HTML has LOTS of extra stuff (albeit text)
to mark up the "text".



For instance "Hello World" in text... 11 bytes.

vs


HTML
HEAD
!-- $MVD$:app("MicroVision WebExpress","769") --
!-- $MVD$:template("","0","0") --
!-- $MVD$:fontset("Comic Sans","Comic Sans MS","Comic Sans","Times
New Roman") --
TITLEUntitled/TITLE
/HEAD
BODY
P
FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS,Comic Sans,Times New Roman"!--
$MVD$:spaceretainer() -- /FONT/P
P
TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0"
TR
TD WIDTH="100%" VALIGN=TOP
P
FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS,Comic Sans,Times New Roman"FONT
SIZE="6"H/FONTello
FONT SIZE="6"W/FONTorld!/FONT/TD
/TR
/TABLE
/BODY
/HTML




This is what HTML could look like to a text browser.

Can you find the message in there?