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Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
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#12Per the spec [0], a URL can hold at least 8,000 characters.
> It is RECOMMENDED that all senders and recipients support, at a minimum, URIs with lengths of 8000 octets in protocol elements. Note that this implies some structures and on-wire representations (for example, the request line in HTTP/1.1) will necessarily be larger in some cases.
Mainstream browsers support at least 64,000 characters [1], and Chrome supports up to 2MB [2].
[0]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#section-4.1-5
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184/
[2]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/s...
Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#13I have a similar one using localStorage
https://github.com/mkaz/browser-pad
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#14I made something similar once, specifically targetted for guitar tablature https://tabviewer.app/
To make links shorter for sharing with others, I use a shortlink service. Pasting URLs of thousands of characters long can be problematic
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#15Per the spec [0], a URL can hold at least 8,000 characters. > It is RECOMMENDED that all senders and recipients support, at a minimum, URIs with lengths of 8000 octets in protocol elements. Note that this implies some structures and on-wire representations (for example, the request line in HTTP/1.1) will necessarily be larger in some cases. Mainstream browsers support at least 64,000 characters [1], and Chrome suppor…
Chrome limit is 2MB, Firefox is 1MB, WebKit is no limit.
Here is the Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky:
- https://medv.io/goto/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoevs...
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#16Love your other tools, btw!
Thanks!
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#17Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#18Can you make it monospace by default, so that this can be used as a code snippet bin?
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#19love it, funny enough, I had similar idea pop into my head some weeks ago, just to be able to store quick notes and favorite them in my browser for later
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#20In case you missed it: it is possible to style textarea via CSS and share it.
- https://textarea.my/#TYuxDcIwEEWpmeKUCiSIJQoKU0KFRBUWOGwnWDi...