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If you like this kind of thing:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help

I always thought CHM was a great format, and surprised it didn't take off... though a more generic .zip (with another extension) where 'index.html' as the start page would be good too.

There's EPUB, though it requires some metadata files along with the HTML.

The EPUB spec is a pain. It's both overly simple, and overly complicated, and I'm not aware of a single reader that is completely compliant.

For example, JS and XHRs are in the spec, but few readers allow them, for very good practical reasons.

Thank you for this list! I wondered if this kind of thing had been done before. MHTML seems especially interesting. I'll have to test browser-compatibility for my use case.

Firefox OS apps also were HTML+JS with a few extra APIs, e.g. for file access.

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