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You could offer content in an ebook format (ePub, mobipocket) which is just HTML and resources with styles and offer it through the web as straight HTML with th

• macspoofing 7y ago
  For sure. But notice you need to define another document standard because you probably don't want to just use an ebook format since that won't capture all your use-cases. So why not just use PDF, docx, or ODF?
  • projektfu 7y ago
    Honestly because those formats are more restrictive (in an engineering sense), proprietary (in the sense of who really controls them) and difficult to parse. You’d need some sort of special subset of the format to make it so that people’s use didn’t obscure information, as is easily doable with scrambled PDFs and the like. You’d have to validate that format and reject submissions that didn’t use it. Laziness would probably lead to whatever the printer driver produces being the de facto standard.