> I'd love to have a format that is just HTML + whatever zipped up that browsers and operating systems happily just open in a browser.
There is MHTML, sadly it fails the second bit because AFAIK Chrome dropped its support and FF and Safari can't open it natively. Apple has its own WebArchive format, and Firefox's MAF extension generated MAFF file but is not compatible with newer versions.
At one point in time, I thought MHTML was precisely what we need to get rid of PDF, double click, and everything works.
Sadly everyone abandoned it, and Google doesn't want you to have down any webpage for archiving purpose.
There is MHTML, sadly it fails the second bit because AFAIK Chrome dropped its support and FF and Safari can't open it natively. Apple has its own WebArchive format, and Firefox's MAF extension generated MAFF file but is not compatible with newer versions.