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If this shows itself to be highly useful as a concept, then I would perhaps avoid reinventing the wheel on the file format side of things, and just standardize what we already have:

- Come up with a file extension (.hmml)

- Decide on an entrypoint filename and format (index.html)

- Use an existing standard for combining resources into one file (tar + zstd)

Now you have something that is usable only using pre-existing tools.

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Yeah I agree

in fact this is both a packing strategy or a POV of thinking. Next browser versions could support it.

or

when tomorrow's genai models mix declarative images with rasters, then they would like something like this

or

OS -> html-underdog.html double clicks -> browser opens it.

Note: the <img> tag does not use and does not need a closing slash and never has in any HTML specification.

Same HTML specification does not support .hmml

Until they support .hmml imma close my image tags. But thanks for highlighting

(its a joke)

Closing an <img> tag with a slash has no meaning. It does nothing. And browsers ignore it. So it's pointless cause <img> is self-closing by itself.

Unless you’re the type who wants their HTML to be valid XHTML! :^)

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