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>MHTML was proposed as an open standard to the IETF but somehow it never took off.

I had always wished MHT replaced PDF. But due to the rivalry at the time Firefox refuse to support MHT ( even to this day ). Webkit has WebArchive which as far as I know isn't support outside of Apple's ecosystem.

I dont actually buy the argument it was Vista that slows down IE development. IE 7 wasn't that much difference to IE 6. It shows Microsoft had very little incentive to improve the Web. I dont know how many actually hate them for not complying with ACID "Standards". I certainly dont. But at the time the Web has so many low hanging fruit a lot of people ( or just me ) were pissed Microsoft didn't even bother improving while holding the web standard hostage with its IE dominance. Along with the crap called Windows Vista.

Luckily we got the first iPhone, 2 (?) years later. And the rest is history.



MHT does not do what PDF does. Web text rendering remains abyssal in comparison to what 1980's computer technology can achieve.


But it would do a lot of the things people use PDF for much better.




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