HTML is but one method of presenting written material on-line and does have some disadvantages.
Large documents are difficult to make into HTML and are unwieldy on-line.
Recently, the National Academy Press has started providing some of their publications on-line in an image format. The image viewer includes an elaborate list that allows the viewing of individual pages as scanned gifs. The site, hosted by Carnage Mellon University, has on-line classics, books, the Gutenberg Etext Books, National Academy Press, Numerical Recipes and more. Using a simple interface, abstracts from papers and references that have been published in Health Physics can be accessed electronically. All journal entries matching your search will be presented, and the results will be sorted by date of publication.