hgbook on bitbucket; was: hgbook is broken?

[Doug Philips]

On or about Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at 02:45PM, Bryan O'Sullivan indited:
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>In retrospect, LaTeX was a poor choice for the book: I wouldn't use it for anything I was
>planning to publish in HTML again.

I realize I'm late coming to this party, but I can't help wondering if HTML output is all that important anymore?
Given that PDF has become the defacto standard for interchanging documents and seems to be well supported in all the major browsers.
Wouldn't it be simplest to just not produce HTML?

    --Doug