Where is the URL???? any example/demo.
nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
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#22Similar to mdview.io (markdown only, not offline) and a suggestion I made a while back:
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#23Was this forked from the nocode project?
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#24If I understand correctly, when a nowhere URL is pasted in a browser, what happens is: 1. the browser downloads generic JS libraries from the main site 2. these libraries then decode the fragment part, and transform it into the UI If that's correct, someone still has to host or otherwise distribute the libraries - hence why you need the app to use it while offline (it ships the libraries). This is not criticism, I'm…
I think it still fulfills the brief; the website you are accessing is still hosted "nowhere". Very cool concept, just read about fragments on the MDN docs a couple month ago
But dependencies are part of a website? It literally says "Still here when the internet isn't." - but I can't go on there without an internet connection?
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#25This is cool and fun, but the sites created by this wouldn't be accessible through search engines as its not hosted anywhere.
So, its just like sending your sites link through email/whatsapp or any other channel. I don't know what the real usecase for this idea could be!!!!
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it still fulfills the brief; the website you are accessing is still hosted "nowhere". Very cool concept, just read about fragments on the MDN docs a couple month ago
But dependencies are part of a website? It literally says "Still here when the internet isn't." - but I can't go on there without an internet connection?
Service Workers can cough up this stuff even without a connection, provided you already visited the site once before. This is how sites like Twitter still load their bones even without a connection.
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#27How 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…
> The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. Technically true, practically a lie. Because that server delivers the Javascript which decodes and presents the content, and that Javascript absolutely has the ability to inspect, modify/censor, and leak the content (along with fingerprints of the browser). > no host to pressure, no plat…
You download the app in case that site goes down.
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#28How 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…
> A site that was never put on a server can never be taken off one. There is no account to suspend, no host to pressure, no platform that can decide your content should not exist. Each copy of the link is a complete copy of the site data.
Unless that site A is encoded in a format that only one other site B on the internet can decode and "serve" (even if it's all client-side) so whoever wanted to block site A would just block site B as a whole.
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#29LLM agent discovered plain text and base64 encoding?
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#30similar 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
I like these. I have one which gives you a little HTML playground. It's in my favourites and I use it quite a lot for jotting things down.
data:text/html,