HTML made for continuous display and re-flowing for different sizes. ODF is for publishing, i.e. where you can have separate pages, with footers, margins, abso

HTML made for continuous display and re-flowing for different sizes. ODF is for publishing, i.e. where you can have separate pages, with footers, margins, absolute position inside page (versus whole document), corrections tracking, authorship, figures. HTML _can_ give you close result, but this is not HTML domain, hence separate standard.