Interesting. Strangely, no mention of HTML, whose tables can do colspan. Just don’t add CSS

HTML can represent a docx file in a web application but it can never replace docx. Docx files are a protocol for sharing documents between lawyers. I go into more detail on that in the "Docx is a protocol, not a filetype" portion of the essay.

https://open.substack.com/pub/versionstory/p/on-the-immortal...