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I made one correction to my original response. The ability to change font size is actually slated for the 1.1 patch. My mistake, and apologies for the error. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

No item information from the stash or inventory? That was the most useful thing possible with this in my opinion, D3 is all about items after all. Sad to hear it's not even on the table for consideration.
How could the items in your inventory or stash be less useful than the items your heroes are wearing and wielding?

They're just as important, not less...did you mean AS useful, perhaps? Not sure how "less" got communicated in that. Like Delritha said, there are a lot of items sitting in the inventory and stash, much more than what we're currently wearing.
Yeah, it wa a typo.

I just would find being able to see them very useful. As an example: I generally know what I'm wearing and have an idea on what my friends are. But maybe they have a sword they plan on using next level and I don't need to hang onto one I found I think may be an upgrade for them, but turns out it isn't.
Or maybe they have something just taking up space I want.
Or for that matter just being able to see my stash/inventory of my own characters out of game would be awesome.
I'll make a note to bring it up with the team and have a discussion around it. Generally, things that are "private" in-game are also private on the web. I can inspect your hero in-game, thus we justify having profile pages outside of the game. I can't look in your stash or inventory, or see the amount of gold you have, thus we generally don't make that available through the website or API.

If there is a good argument for changing that, then it is something we can look at doing. With that said, I don't think there are any compelling reasons to change the visibility of that data.

Well, that's kind of an arbitrary cut off point.
I don't think arbitrary means what you think it means. We decided to display what can be seen in-game, a decision that has been consistent and carefully thought out.

I did say "kind of"  Semantics (and my poor word choice...) aside, the point of that was showing the items is just as valid as not. The carefully thought out result could have been to make the stash optionally viewable to all and things would be ok (outside of possible technical issue I guess). Again, thanks for reading.
Yeah, all silliness aside, I'm going to make sure this is discussed. We generally don't include things like personal inventory and gold, but I'm going to revisit the subject internally with the team.

Easier to trade outside of the game. People can link to their profile and verify to potential buyers their inventory/stash for trading. This certainly defeats taking screenshots of your inventory and posting them to the trading forums. (Note - if you're wondering why people trade outside of the AH, it's to either beat the tax or sell more than 10 items a day)
Just putting this out there, but you list this as a "PRO", however this is a major reason for us not to do it.

Realistically, exposing inventory and stash data isn't something we would support with the release of the API. We'll discuss it, think about it, sleep on it, but it won't be any time soon.

You're considering showing items in your stash and inventory (or plan to consider it) but you're not considering showing items in the actual Auction House?
Take comfort in knowing that if we did expose inventory information, it would probably be way behind exposing at least read-only AH information on the list of things to do.

time played should not be exposed in game either.
Which is totally and completely outside of my realm of influence.

In the Diablo3 Armory preview screenshots we saw progress bar with progression both on hero and account pages. In the API preview there is only very poor info about progression.
I think the API should fully reflect information from HTML pages.
Thank you good sir, it was an oversight. Hero progression will be included in the hero API resource.