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You could do it with packed HTML, and run a little localhost web server to plug it into a browser. HTML is a mess, but at least it's popular.
by ReactiveJelly 6y ago
You could do it with packed HTML, and run a little localhost web server to plug it into a browser.
HTML is a mess, but at least it's popular.
- pessimizer 6y agoPDF is already a popular mess, and open. If you were going to reimplement on top of sqlite, the value would be from implementing it sanely.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoPDF, unlike HTML, is inappropriate for most digital documents.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWhat happened to single-file HTLM formats ? There's EPUB, but it has some shortcomings, like the lack of mp4/webm support...
- 2038AD 6y ago> There's EPUB, but it has some shortcomings, like the lack of mp4/webm support... As a PDF replacement, that seems like a good feature to exclude
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWhy ? Also, I'm not looking for a PDF replacement so much as an actual digital portable document format.
- im3w1l 6y agoHtml is a very complex "living standard" which arguably makes it unsuited for anything but web content.