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This is not an HTML replacement, but a PDF replacement. HTML has never been, and probably never will be, a popular format for static documents.

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One things that is missing from html is a "jar" like format so that an entire document can be contained in a single file (without data: hacks).

It seems that all we need is an extension, I propose ".htz" and a mime type, say "application/x-html-bundle". Browser's would just download it and open the containing "index.html" (at the top level or inside a unique top level directory) and open other assets relative to that.

Perhaps you're thinking of the ".mhtml" file-format, supported by IE since before IE6? It saves a web-page and associated files as one MIME multipart/related stream, much the same way that images are included in emails.

I wouldn't be so sure that HTML isn't becoming a PDF replacement. And it seems odd to pitch a dynamic document format as a better type of static document. The whole point of CDF is that it isn't static.

PDF has static contents and a static interface. CDF has static contents and a dynamic interface. HTML has dynamic contents and a dynamic interface.

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