hyperfiler VS wayback

>HTML can easily be offline-able. Base64 your images or use SVG, put your CSS in the HTML page, remove all 2-way data interaction, basically reduce HTML to the same performance as PDF and allow it to be downloaded.

I built a tool for this exact purpose[0] since the HTML specification and modern browsers have a lot of nice features for creating and reading documents compared to PDF (reflow and responsive page scaling, accessibility, easily sharable, a lot of styling options that are easy to use, ability for the user to easily modify the document or change the style, integration with existing web technologies, etc.). In general I would rather read an HTML document than the PDF document since I like to modify the styling in various ways (dark theme extensions in the browser for example) which may be hard to do with a PDF, but its more of a personal preference. Some people will prefer that the document adjusts to the screen size of the device (many HTML pages), and others will prefer the exact same or similar rendering regardless of the screen size (PDF).

Either way, kind of a fun idea making a website using just PDFs. Not the most practical choice, but fun none-the-less.

[0] https://github.com/chowderman/hyperfiler

There is also a similar program called HyperFiler[0]* that bundles web pages into single HTML files with a few more options such as a headless chromium transport option, built in minifiers, page sanitizers, and an option to grayscale the output pages, among other options. It's TypeScript based and has an programmatic API to customize the bundling process as well.

[0] https://github.com/chowderman/hyperfiler

* disclaimer: I created HyperFiler

I wish there was an alternative to the Internet Archive with collaborative curation. You share files and people who tag and sort them into albums can download them. And if it was federated it could be just as extensive as the Internet Archive by searching files on many instances at the same time. Sadly the closest thing are ArchiveBox and wayback which won't replace the Internet Archive.

There's also wayback for remote and local archiving https://github.com/wabarc/wayback

Web archiving just got more convenient! Wayback now supports XMPP. This means you can receive archived web pages via XMPP messages, making it even easier to access historical versions of web pages. Give it a try and let us know what you think!