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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by notnmeyer on Monday August 18, 2025 @01:09PM (#44942950)
iirc browsers used to allow direct filesystem access.
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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by mpyne on Monday August 18, 2025 @02:49PM (#44943973)
They never did, if anything it's the opposite in that I think there are now APIs that can make this possible.

With TiddlyWiki you had to essentially File -> Save As and save the HTML back over itself. There were other ways too but they were all workarounds to the issue that browsers don't allow direct access.

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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by davidhbolton on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:45PM (#44944520)
They did back around 2008. I used Wiki on a stick - see https://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/which was kind of neat) but after a few years, Chrome etc stopped letting it save itself.
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