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If this is an intricate joke or something I'm sorry because I'm not well versed enough to get it :) Do we still use CD-ROMs? Do you mean the HTML format is as o

by WHA8m 5y ago

If this is an intricate joke or something I'm sorry because I'm not well versed enough to get it :) Do we still use CD-ROMs? Do you mean the HTML format is as outdated as CD-ROMs? I thought about HTML as a format for note taking or as an alternative for PDF. Stuff like that.

PaulHoule 5y ago
If you distribute HTML via http it is the web. If you distribute it some other way it is something else. You can certainly take notes with HTML but it seems people would rather use markdown. So far as "alternative to PDF" I'd say SVG is based on similar capabilities (vector graphics.) For either one of those cases people might use "the web" to store or deliver those HTML files.
- WHA8m 5y ago
  Doesn't people want more formatting in their notes? I'm not talking about myself or HN crowd, but mainstream. I don't really understand what you mean with the http and web stuff. I recently began downloading sites with the SingleFile Add-on for Firefox. I get a html file out of it. If I want to open it, I need something to render it. Which is my browser ,but could be something not web-related as well, couldn't it? Doesn't make it that a normal file format?
  - PaulHoule 5y ago
    Where does HTML end and Javascript, SVG, and more interactive technologies begin? It is normal for an HTML file to point to resources outside the HTML file, that is, even if it is an HTML file on your hard drive it might point to images, Javascripts, etc. on other servers. It certainly is possible to draw a circle around an HTML document and put the resources into a ZIP file, that is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB I bring up the analogy with "CD Rom" because physical media are kinda on the outs today. There was the time I had to get a 30GB file somewhere overnight by the end of a sprint (I got DSL) and the people were shocked that I sent a Blu-Ray. Tell people that a USB thumb drive is a competitor for cloud storage for sharing files with friends and co-workers and they are absolutely scandalized.
timonoko 5y ago
In many countries HTML is the format of official documents. This is because both PDF and WORD are very proprietary and may contain american trickery.
- WHA8m 5y ago
  This was kind of the starting point of my thought process. It's somewhat readable without rendering too. So I thought it'd be a really versatile alternative to a lot of other formats. But it doesn't seem relevant outside of the web. So that's where I came from..

by WHA8m 5y ago

PaulHoule 5y ago

If you distribute HTML via http it is the web. If you distribute it some other way it is something else. You can certainly take notes with HTML but it seems people would rather use markdown. So far as "alternative to PDF" I'd say SVG is based on similar capabilities (vector graphics.) For either one of those cases people might use "the web" to store or deliver those HTML files.

WHA8m 5y ago
Doesn't people want more formatting in their notes? I'm not talking about myself or HN crowd, but mainstream. I don't really understand what you mean with the http and web stuff. I recently began downloading sites with the SingleFile Add-on for Firefox. I get a html file out of it. If I want to open it, I need something to render it. Which is my browser ,but could be something not web-related as well, couldn't it? Doesn't make it that a normal file format?
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  Where does HTML end and Javascript, SVG, and more interactive technologies begin? It is normal for an HTML file to point to resources outside the HTML file, that is, even if it is an HTML file on your hard drive it might point to images, Javascripts, etc. on other servers. It certainly is possible to draw a circle around an HTML document and put the resources into a ZIP file, that is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB I bring up the analogy with "CD Rom" because physical media are kinda on the outs today. There was the time I had to get a 30GB file somewhere overnight by the end of a sprint (I got DSL) and the people were shocked that I sent a Blu-Ray. Tell people that a USB thumb drive is a competitor for cloud storage for sharing files with friends and co-workers and they are absolutely scandalized.

timonoko 5y ago

In many countries HTML is the format of official documents. This is because both PDF and WORD are very proprietary and may contain american trickery.

WHA8m 5y ago
This was kind of the starting point of my thought process. It's somewhat readable without rendering too. So I thought it'd be a really versatile alternative to a lot of other formats. But it doesn't seem relevant outside of the web. So that's where I came from..