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HTML is a native image format, hear me out

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HMML (HyperMedia Markup Language) is a declarative markup language for images. Also JS. HMML is HTML, but not UTF-8. A sneak peek for future-gen media (#rezervation)

a real website · one .hmml · … decoding a whole website from one file…

↑ A real food-delivery page - markup, images & an SVG animation in one .hmml, … smaller than the same page as base64. Watch the stick-man between the rows. it says “I am image.”

Look closely: that's dozens of images inside an HTML layout - what everyone calls “HTML with images.” HMML folds the markup, the images and all into a single binary file. At which point the whole thing simply becomes an image.