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by NoMoreNicksLeft 125 days ago
Html is already a good single-file html format. Images can be inlined with data-uri. CSS and javascript have been inlineable since the very beginning. What more is needed? Fonts? Data-uri, once more.

Hell, html is probably what word processor apps should be saving everything as. You can get pixel-level placement of any element if you want that.
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Quarrel 124 days ago
They explicitely contrast it with single file html, giving an example that is much more performant than waiting for the single 280Mb html file to load.

Yes, they're both approximately the same in terms of size on disk and even network traffic for a fully loaded page, one is a much better browser experience.

> You can get pixel-level placement of any element if you want that.

You may well be able to, but it is largely anathema to the goals of html.

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