Removing D embedded in HTML feature

[Christopher Wright]

Jussi Jumppanen wrote:
> Christopher Wright Wrote:
> 
>> 3. It already takes me five minutes to check out a 
>> fresh copy of my projects at work. If the files 
>> contained formatting data, they'd be a fair bit 
>> larger, which would increase that time. That would 
>> be annoying.
> 
> And adding binary files to the version control would 
> put an end to any meaningful file difference/change
> history feature, making the change control pretty 
> much unworkable.

Subversion does okay with xml, and I imagine that goes for most RCSs. 
But xml tends to be verbose if it's readable, which led to ODF using 
zipped xml files, which brings us back to binary files.