So, you say you need a format to transport a document, as one single file, from one device to another? (No talking about the beauty of hyperlinking but actually sending/storing)

And HTML doesn't offer that feature?

Ok, how about we all get together and propose the W3C to create a format BASED ON HTML, open source, free, not propietary, for everybody to use and improve upon?

How about that for an idea?

Like, instead of "Save complete page as HTML" which creates folders and hidden passages to hell, some option to save as HTMD (d for doc); where the browser serves as the document viewer with no other plugin or add on than the browser engine?

Where you can open an inspect that HTMD like we do now with "View Source"?

So when you visit a page you can "Save as HTML Doc" the whole page in one file, images included?

So we impulse a new breed of HTML doc creators, instead of PDF creators, scribd creators, nextpropietary creator, etc?

Where you can create your doc and just publish it to the web, because it is HTML and the web already knows it very well?

There, my brainfarts for the day...

Which wouldn't be that difficult after all, even a firefox plugin could do that.

- Move all the JS and CSS inside the main doc.

- Convert all images to src=data:

- Some other minor tweaks

There you have it, one single file in all its HTML beauty