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> HTML actually really sucks as a portable document standard without some extra semantic definition and a container format. You're probably looking for the WAR
by shakna 7y ago
> HTML actually really sucks as a portable document standard without some extra semantic definition and a container format.
You're probably looking for the WARC [0] ISO standard. Widely supported and used. Including by the UK [1].
WARC is simple enough that tools to create or extract from it are dime a dozen.
As for the incredibly complicated rendering engines to look at the extracted HTML when you want, then even links doesn't struggle to render the content.
[0] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000236.shtml https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...
[1] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/289 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/289