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Re:HTML is a native image format, hear me out by wewewedxfgdf on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:03AM (#48489215)
This is the sort of weird thing I would come up with - a solution without a problem perhaps, but a magnificent testament to some technical itch that had to be scratched.
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Re:HTML is a native image format, hear me out by yeargun on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:11AM (#48489280)
I mean,

https://eddocu.com It's the worlds most performant pdf / pptx editor on web.

I have a page that I list documents, each with their thumbnails. I serve medium quality rasters(.webp) for them.

I could rather do it via hmml to save up network space for instance. I convert pdf/pptx/docx into completely editable with html at Eddocu.

So I already have everything in html, css, svg, image.

For the ones that can get represented with .hmml i could serve hmml link maybe.

Its an overengineering maybe.

But thats how I made https://eddocu.com world's most performant pdf/pptx editor. (alpha release, has bugs.)

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