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it is actual, widespread standard widely considered being suitable for archival.

For archival of webpages? Who recommends that?

Fast-forward 50 years, which one do you think is more likely: finding a PDF reader or a MAFF reader?

If I can't find a MAFF reader, I can unzip the MAFF and deal with the files directly, as I have already done in automating some editing some of the SR MAFFs to remove my username. It was much easier than the last time I wanted to edit a PDF, where it took me several hours to figure out how to do just one edit by hand.

How do MHT creation tools handle dynamic pages?

They don't, but I haven't seen any 'print to PDF' mechanism which handled dynamic pages either. So I'm not sure how this is a 'major win' for PDFs compared to MHT/MAFF.

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