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Web format is interactive, easily to read on the phone, and the editors are as WYSIWYG like Word, but as customizable as LaTeX. Learning HTML/JS is much more useful than learning LaTeX. (Searching HTML/JS in Google yields 1080 M results, while LaTeX yields 780 M results.) You can archive, version and index a webpage like any PDF file. If one wants to have everything in one file, then webpages can do that. In fact that's what PDF does: compress multiple files into one file. If the medium is computer screens, then I only see it has advantages over using PDF.

I know that we still need to use paper as the medium here and there (we call papers as papers, not files), but isn't that only in that case that we should learn typesetting system? If the author doesn't care what medium the intended audience will read on, then why not using web format, as I think it is more popular these days? If the readers only need to read it in papers for some reasons (like it's better for their brains to read and write with pen and papes) and actually doesn't care about beautiful styling, then the print command is enough for that.

Or is it just that the new medium needs more time to widely adopted? In that case can we expect that more journals will accept web format submission in the future? Or if not, then what makes us expect that the intended audience will read the papers on paper?

Web format is interactive, easily to read on the phone, and the editors are as WYSIWYG like Word, but as customizable as LaTeX. Learning HTML/JS is much more useful than learning LaTeX. (Searching HTML/JS in Google yields 1080 M results, while LaTeX yields 780 M results.) You can archive, version and index a webpage like any PDF file. If one wants to have everything in one file, then webpages can do that. In fact that's what PDF does: compress multiple files into one file. If the medium is computer screens, then I only see it has advantages over using PDF.

I know that we still need to use paper as the medium here and there (we call papers as papers, not files), but isn't that only in that case that we should learn typesetting system? If the author doesn't care what medium the intended audience will read on, then why not using web format, as I think it is more popular these days? If the readers only need to read it in papers for some reasons (like it's better for their brains to read and write with pen and paper) and actually doesn't care about beautiful styling, then the print command is enough for that.

Or is it just that the new medium needs more time to widely adopted? In that case can we expect that more journals will accept web format submission in the future? Or if not, then what makes us expect that the intended audience will read the papers on paper?

Web format is interactive, easily to read on the phone, and the editors are as WYSIWYG like Word, but as customizable as LaTeX. Learning HTML/JS is much useful than learning LaTeX. (Searching HTML/JS in Google yields 1080 M results, while LaTeX yields 780 M results.) You can archive, version and index a webpage like any PDF file. If one want to have everything in one file, then webpage can do that. In fact that's what PDF does: compressing multiple files into one file. If the medium is computer screen, then I only see it has advantage over using PDF.

I know that we still need to use paper as the medium here and there (we call papers as papers, not files), but isn't that only in that case that we should learn typesetting system? If the author doesn't care what medium the intended audience will read on, then why not using web format, as I think it is more popular these days? If the readers only need to read it in papers for some reasons (like it's better for their brains to read and write with pen and papers) and actually doesn't care about beautiful styling, then the print command is enough for that.

Or is it just that the new medium needs more time to widely adopted? In that case can we expect that more journals will accept web format submission in the future? Or if not, then what makes us expected that the intended audience will read the papers on papers?

Web format is interactive, easily to read on the phone, and the editors are as WYSIWYG like Word, but as customizable as LaTeX. Learning HTML/JS is much more useful than learning LaTeX. (Searching HTML/JS in Google yields 1080 M results, while LaTeX yields 780 M results.) You can archive, version and index a webpage like any PDF file. If one wants to have everything in one file, then webpages can do that. In fact that's what PDF does: compress multiple files into one file. If the medium is computer screens, then I only see it has advantages over using PDF.

I know that we still need to use paper as the medium here and there (we call papers as papers, not files), but isn't that only in that case that we should learn typesetting system? If the author doesn't care what medium the intended audience will read on, then why not using web format, as I think it is more popular these days? If the readers only need to read it in papers for some reasons (like it's better for their brains to read and write with pen and papes) and actually doesn't care about beautiful styling, then the print command is enough for that.

Or is it just that the new medium needs more time to widely adopted? In that case can we expect that more journals will accept web format submission in the future? Or if not, then what makes us expect that the intended audience will read the papers on paper?

Web format is interactive, easily to read on the phone, and the editors are as WYSIWYG like Word, but as customizable as LaTeX. Learning HTML/JS is much useful than learning LaTeX. (Searching HTML/JS in Google yields 1080 M results, while LaTeX yields 780 M results.) You can archive, version and index a webpage like any PDF file. If one want to have everything in one file, then webpage can do that. In fact that's what PDF does: compressing multiple files into one file. If the medium is computer screen, then I only see it has advantage over using PDF.

I know that we still need to use paper as the medium here and there (we call papers as papers, not files), but isn't that only in that case that we should learn typesetting system? If the author doesn't care what medium the intended audience will read on, then why not using web format, as I think it is more popular these days? If the readers only need to read it in papers for some reasons (like it's better for their brains to read and write with pen and papers) and actually doesn't care about beautiful styling, then the print command is enough for that.

Or is it just that the new medium needs more time to widely adopted? In that case can we expect that more journals will accept web format submission in the future? Or if not, then what makes us expected that the intended audience will read the papers on papers?

Web format is interactive, easily to read on the phone, and the editors are as WYSIWYG like Word, but as customizable as LaTeX. Learning HTML/JS is much useful than learning LaTeX. (Searching HTML/JS in Google yields 1080 M results, while LaTeX yields 780 M results.) You can archive, version and index a webpage like any PDF file. If one want to have everything in one file, then webpage can do that. In fact that's what PDF does: compressing multiple files into one file. If the medium is computer screen, then I only see it has advantage over using PDF.

I know that we still need to use paper as the medium here and there (we call papers as papers, not files), but isn't that only in that case that we should learn typesetting system? If the author doesn't care what medium the intended audience will read on, then why not using web format, as I think it is more popular these days? If the readers only need to read it in papers for some reasons (like it's better for their brains to read and write with pen and papers) and actually doesn't care about beautiful styling, then the print command is enough for that.

Or is it just that the new medium needs more time to widely adopted? In that case can we expect that more journals will accept web format submission in the future? Or if not, then what makes us expected that the intended audience will read the papers on papers?