Also:  <i>bare-ass raw HTML5 is actually really, really good</i>.  It does a nice job of providing <i>structural</i> definition, and I strongly recommend Mark Pilgrim&#x27;s <i>Dive Into HTML5</i> as both a guide and <i>demonstration</i> (in its Web incarnation) of that ability.<p>It still lacks a few things, which both hNews and ePub could extend, and a few other bits.<p>1. Metadata.  Authorship, publication date, title, and some sort of content valididty really need to be a thing.  hNews and ePub both go there.<p>2. Notes.  I don&#x27;t care how they&#x27;re <i>presented</i>, but sidenotes, footnotes, endnotes, need to be <i>integral</i> to HTML.  I&#x27;ve gussied up some solutions myself, they kinda-sorta work.  I&#x27;m not entirely thrilled.  These should be entirely browser-native and <i>not</i> require JS.<p>3. Some sort of hierarchical discussion.  Comments, etc.  Essentially a marriage of the browser and the Mutt or tin&#x2F;rtin newsreaders.  With filtering and other capacities.<p>4. Reputation management.  Entirely local, or distributed.  Good and bad authorship, as with elections, should have consequences.<p>5. Curation.  Why this is lacking from current generations of Browser I don&#x27;t know.<p>Add to this an in-browser set of <i>styles</i> which can be applied to the <i>document templates</i> mentioned above, and we&#x27;re getting somewhere.