Entire website in a single HTML file

Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by npteljes on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:47AM (#29671693)

On HN it makes sense to me, because a long link would interrupt the flow of text. So you do a footnote to make them go out of the way. Otherwise Wikipedia has a happy medium I think; footnotes are on the bottom where you'd expect, but they show on hover so you don't have to jump there and then back.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by outadoc on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:10AM (#29671845)

If only the Web had a way to make text clickable withtout showing the whole target URL.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by marginalia_nu on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:15AM (#29673299)

I find inline links incredibly disruptive to my reading flow, the change in color makes my eyes start jumping around in the text. Wikipedia especially is absolutely hopeless, to the point where I've built a mirror that removes all inline links. (A page looks like this: https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki/Hyperlink )

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by anigbrowl on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:06PM (#29720440)

Just make it the same color. For me links on HN are underlined but the same color as regular text or a slightly dimmer gray if already visited. It's one of the first things I do when I install a new browser and if it's hard that browser doesn't stay installed long.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by breggles on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:19AM (#29674260)

Just found this FF add-on [1], yesterday, which removes all links from a page. Works reasonably well. Can also invoke reader view after removing links and get the benefits there.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nolinks/

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by efreak on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:23PM (#29686638)

Wouldn't a user script work just as well for this purpose? `document.querySelectorAll('a').for each(a=>{a.outerHTML=a.innerHTML});`

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by marginalia_nu on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:39PM (#29686754)

Sure, that works too. You still get the megabyte pageloads though, and you need to carry the script with you every where you go.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by bananamerica on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:05AM (#29673652)

Looks good. A bit out of date though

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by marginalia_nu on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:10PM (#29679042)

Yeah, I think the there is a new data dump available, will rebuild the html files from that soon.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by npteljes on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:52AM (#29672154)

There must be other reasons, if it doesn't make sense technologically, no? Instagram also has the tech to show more than 3 images in a row, and Twitter could allow longer texts if they wanted so.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by zaphirplane on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:45AM (#29672476)

Sarcasm acknowledged

Hiding in the URL is a favorite feature for scams and pranks

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by dncornholio on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:22AM (#29671936)

The technology just isn't there yet.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by Flankk on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:24AM (#29671955)

The reason is that trolls like to post links to shock sites or a google search for something terrible. Even worse, you could get rickrolled.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by kreeben on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:33AM (#29672029)

Some day we will have native browser support for the full URL showing in the status field.

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by zaphirplane on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:56AM (#29672540)

Oh no cried the scammers, how will we ever again trick people into clicking a link

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by johannes1234321 on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:23AM (#29674302)

window.status to the rescue! We must override the long scam URL there!

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Re:Entire website in a single HTML file by tcmart14 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @01:23AM (#29690225)

Just wanted to say, the best part was acknowledging the worst was being rickrolled. xD

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