[hodgesrm]

> The main thrust in this article is that scraping HTML display markup is a terrible form of data interchange between systems.

Agree. Many of the comments seem to come from reading "Why HTML Is a Strategic Dead End" leaving off "for Business Transactions and E-Commerce." Screen scraping 3270 protocol blocks was a thing for integrating IBM applications (and not a good thing IMO).

I don't think Wayne was really focused on behavior outside of using HTML for integration purposes. This is partly from reading the article. It's also from knowing Wayne Duquaine, the author. We met in the mid-1990s at Sybase, where he made all the IBM system integrations work. Wayne viewed most problems through a mainframe lens. His note seems pretty typical of his point of view.

[lucideer]

This adds great context to the article - thanks.

> I don't think Wayne was really focused on behavior outside of using HTML for integration purposes.

This makes me more curious about his work now - I'll have to look into it more. It sounds like he was needing to do something he really shouldn't've needed to do, but perhaps I'm (again) missing context.