similar enough that i'll share, I think i learned this from an HN comment, you can put the code for a page in the url (with obvious limits): this works as a "url" in both chrome and safari: data:text/html, notes
nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
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Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#32> hosted nowhere > present everywhere > Still here when the internet isn't I'm afraid the OP may not have full understanding of how internet works. This is either some kind of a post irony, or some vibe code fever dream. Either way, I'm deeply confused.
I guess in theory if this is packaged as a PWA (or the old-school way, a single .html with everything needed inside of it) you could actually run this anywhere and without internet access easily. Besides loading the frontend resources, is there anything else that wouldn't work? Seems like a simple idea, so as long as the assets could be loaded, you'd be able to "load" the "apps", wouldn't you?
Now for online, the data is in the URL already, publicly available (unless shared privately), and the "loader" is still served from the server, so you have to trust the server not to exfiltrate the data.
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#33Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#34How it works A URL fragment is the part after #. The HTTP specification prohibits browsers from sending fragments to servers. The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. No content is collected, stored, or logged. The privacy is structural. A site that was never put on a server can never be taken off one. There is no account to susp…
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#35What's the point? You still have to share the link somewhere, why not just share a block of text (invitation, campaign, whatever) directly instead?
I think its just for fun :)
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#36Like this: https://nowhr.xyz/s#yzXyzs8PcDbxyQ_0KbYMzzRNytKNyE0JDM0x8zT2...
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#37> The internet promised freedom. Platforms delivered permission. > Private through physics. Not through policy. Goodness, LLM really convinced itself this was groundbreaking. You could describe a .html file sitting on your computer with all of the same marketing bluster. Someone has to send it to you all the same, and you might as well not rely on some random internet service to render it??
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#38I am using similar method to share Markdown files as one big URL like this: https://mdview.io/#mdv=N4IgbiBcCMA0IBMCGAXJUTADrhzWOAtgnjgMQ...
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess in theory if this is packaged as a PWA (or the old-school way, a single .html with everything needed inside of it) you could actually run this anywhere and without internet access easily. Besides loading the frontend resources, is there anything else that wouldn't work? Seems like a simple idea, so as long as the assets could be loaded, you'd be able to "load" the "apps", wouldn't you?
Sure, but what's the point then? Seems like .html with extra steps, not to mention that the URL itself won't work. Now for online, the data is in the URL already, publicly available (unless shared privately), and the "loader" is still served from the server, so you have to trust the server not to exfiltrate the data.
Literally says in the submission title and the website itself: An entire website encoded in a URL.
And yes, the domain part of the URL might not work, but whatever URL you use locally would work just as well if you switch the domain, unless I'm missing something.
> Now for online, the data is in the URL already, publicly available (unless shared privately), and the "loader" is still served from the server, so you have to trust the server not to exfiltrate the data.
Yes, the data is in the URL, seems to be the single point of this entire project. I don't seem to find any "server" doing anything of worth here, all the meat really sits in the client-side code, which you can serve however you like, might even work through file://, haven't tried it myself.
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but what's the point then? Seems like .html with extra steps, not to mention that the URL itself won't work. Now for online, the data is in the URL already, publicly available (unless shared privately), and the "loader" is still served from the server, so you have to trust the server not to exfiltrate the data.
> Sure, but what's the point then? Seems like .html with extra steps, not to mention that the URL itself won't work. Literally says in the submission title and the website itself: An entire website encoded in a URL. And yes, the domain part of the URL might not work, but whatever URL you use locally would work just as well if you switch the domain, unless I'm missing something. > Now for online, the data is in the UR…
It is very much not, open the network tab on any of the examples, behold.