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by crabmusket 887 days ago
Pixel-perfect layout shouldn't be a goal for the kind of content that needs to be accessible, durable, etc. PDFs rely on your monitor's colour grading. In fact, allowing a reader to reformat the content to suit their needs is a benefit of HTML, not a drawback.
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HTML is much less durable than PDF (25 year old PDFs still render the same. 25 year old HTML certainly doesn't.)

HTML relies just as much on your monitor's colour grading as PDF does.

(Your other arguments stand well enough.)

I have HTML documents from 25 years ago that are perfectly readable.

The render as I wish. ie are readable.