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This is great and all (I've been making my own standalone web app htmls), but one issue I've found when sharing with others is iOS (iPhone/iPads) don't support them. Apple ugh. Any suggestions how to overcome this? I believe it's a security setting, not allowing localstorage to be set.
I would like web standards have better support for pages stored in a local file (opened using file:// protocol). Sometimes I write simple HTML/Vue based mini-apps for myself and every time something doesn't work and I need workarounds, for example: - local HTML file cannot import local JS modules, so I have to use legacy writing style - local HTML file cannot open other local files (for example, audio files) I unders…
This is quite similar to what I was trying to explore with [1] & [2] yesterday. Currently, the only option I found is to use localStorage and give the user the option to manually export and import. Hyperclay has given me some ideas. What I want is something like [3] but that the user only needs to install once. One electron app that can load our mini-apps. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930814 [2] - htt…
If you use Claude to generate apps in the artifact they are very similar - self contained and easy to create and share.
This is just awesome! But seems like a closed source project, and the pricing page returns HTTP 404. Are there any open source alternatives like this? First time I hear about this idea. However, I can imagine it wouldn't take much effort to implement the basics. Chromium even has a design mode you can activate by typing `document.designMode='on'` in the console. Then you would just need to write a little javascript t…
I really liked this when it was launched and thought it had a great deal of potential when it launched. I think the main difference is that it's more focused on content-editing, not updating the code of the page itself.
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There's two approaches Hyperclay takes. 1. Hosted: You get a bunch of "HTML Apps" that persist themselves by calling their own /save endpoint. We grab the HTML and overwrite their-app-name.html, making a backup/version along the way. (Each user can edit their own app only, but they can also enable signups so that other people can fork their app. We also have plans to allow them to ship optional updates to forked apps…
So… it's a server that stores HTML files?
Webservers are a pain in the ass and a legitimate barrier to entry. Wouldn't it be great it you could literally send around a single file, especially to non-technical users who cant run a web server, to run your apps?
... I would like to up the anty and have web apps work in a portable vanilla HTML file WITHOUT needing a webserver to run it. E.g., double click and run. CORS be damned! Webservers are a pain in the ass and a legitimate barrier to entry. Wouldn't it be great it you could literally send around a single file, especially to non-technical users who cant run a web server, to run your apps?
Problems with the approach: * Customers still ask you why stuff doesn't work, except now it's their hardware * Observability is not as strong on self-hosted solutions * There is no true universal binary, so no matter what you have to put constraints up (only runs on windows, mac, etc.) * Updates are way harder
Browsers are built to browse the web, trying to remove the web out of browser apps seems illogical
I would like web standards have better support for pages stored in a local file (opened using file:// protocol). Sometimes I write simple HTML/Vue based mini-apps for myself and every time something doesn't work and I need workarounds, for example: - local HTML file cannot import local JS modules, so I have to use legacy writing style - local HTML file cannot open other local files (for example, audio files) I unders…
A significant hindrance for generator-type apps is that only pages loaded via HTTPS have access to the clipboard API, so ”copy to clipboard” does not work via file:///. You can have a zero-build zero-dependency offline-only app which users could theoretically just save as a page, but copy buttons will not work, so you have to detect the API not being available and replace buttons with popover textareas. Clunky. As fo…
Can somebody help me understand what’s going on?