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Ask HN: Best way to bundle as HTML? Maybe even vids included

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Post by bammmmm » Tue, May 28, 2019, 5:52 PM UTC

Is there a way to make a rich HTML page self-containing?

I love html, pdf not so much. I also love epub, but it has narrow uses.

Existing HTML embedding in to HTML is possible, but Data URI has a 2MB limit on Chrome I think. Maybe a blob helps?

Is there any way I could bundle/pack all scripts, images and maybe videos in to an html in a sane way? Is this feasible at all?

I guess browsers might load the html in to RAM, that could be a problem.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to bundle as HTML? Maybe even vids included

Post by byoung2 » Tue, May 28, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

Something like an Electron app but lighter? How would you be distributing this?

Post by bammmmm » Tue, May 28, 2019, 6:00 PM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #2

Something like an Electron app but lighter? How would you be distributing this? https://electronjs.org/

I'd attach it to an email or send it over slack and hope html opens with a sane browser on the other end :)

But I guess these have the 2MB limit and I don't know if maybe more limits.