[9HZZRfNlpR]

HTML/CSS is extremely backwards compatible, modern browsers don't have problems of displaying the page differently.

How does pdf solve link rot problem? Pdf is good for print, it's consistant. But fails when display size other than big screen, especially e-ink displays that don't tend to be your standard A4.

[sjy]

PDFs don't solve link rot. But in HTML, it's conventional to rely on links for stylesheets and sometimes even content (images, asynchronous DOM elements), so link rot is a bigger problem.

[j-pb]

Yeah for publishing you don't want content in links, but you can solve that with data URIs that embed images and other data directly into the link [1].

[1]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme