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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by leptons on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:58AM (#44938650)
This all sounds like something from 2001. I was doing pretty much exactly this around 2001, using contenteditable with an IIS/JScript back-end.
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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by BoppreH on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:36AM (#44938831)
I think contenteditable is more akin to a rich-text document, while Hyperclay goes a bit beyond by allowing JS to edit the DOM too. I think Smalltalk images and virtual machines are a closer comparison, but applied to the web. You download the image, with some running code, use it, and persist the whole application state.
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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by leptons on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @12:44AM (#44948328)
> while Hyperclay goes a bit beyond by allowing JS to edit the DOM too.

So revolutionary!! How did they achieve this technical feat!?

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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by philote on Monday August 18, 2025 @08:53AM (#44940046)
Yeah, sounds like Tiddly Wiki or similar except with the need for a backend component.

Edit: actually it looks more like a library/framework to make such apps. And now I'm not sure if it needs a backend component or nodejs or not.

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